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HDD-Housing e.U. is an Austrian-based colocation service specifically designed for physical Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). Instead of paying for cloud storage space, you send your own physical hard drive to us to be hosted and accessed remotely. 1. Core Concept HDD...

Welcome to HDD-Housing e.U. HDD-Housing is a specialized Online Colocation Service for Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) based in Austria, founded in 2022. We provide a secure, climate-controlled, and high-speed server environment for your physical backup hard drives. U...

Pricing and Service Terms We believe in simple, transparent pricing with no hidden fees or complicated "egress" costs. Standard Pricing €20.00 per HDD per month. Annual Discount: Pay for 1 year in advance and get 2 months free. No VAT: Under the Austrian...

HDD Colocation vs. Traditional Cloud Storage For users with 12TB, 18TB, or 20TB+ of data, traditional "Big Tech" cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure) become prohibitively expensive. The Colocation Advantage: Fixed Costs: Your monthly fee remains €20 regardle...

Connecting to Your Offsite Backup We offer two primary methods to access your hosted hard drive remotely. 1. S3 (Object Storage) Using Minio, we provide an S3-compatible endpoint. This allows you to integrate your HDD with almost any modern backup software, in...

Server Environment and Data Integrity Your drives are housed in enterprise-grade servers running Proxmox with ECC (Error Correction Code) RAM to prevent silent data corruption (bit rot). Supported File Systems ZFS: Recommended for maximum data integrity and ...

Network Speed and Bandwidth Limits Our facility is equipped with high-speed fiber connectivity to ensure your backups run smoothly. Backup Speed (Upload to us): Up to 1 Gbit/s. Restore Speed (Download from us): Currently limited to approximately 50 Mbit/s....

Getting Started: Hardware & Shipping To begin the service, you must provide your own hard drive. 1. Prepare Your Drive We recommend pre-loading (seeding) your initial backup onto the drive at home. This saves you weeks of upload time. Supported Sizes: 3.5” a...

Security, Health Monitoring, and Privacy Health Monitoring (Grafana) Every customer receives access to a Grafana Dashboard. You can view: S.M.A.R.T. values (Hard drive health status). Disk usage statistics for the last 365 days. Email alerts in the event...