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Hardware: Storage

You can view a list of our updated hardware here.

Interface/Type​

This is a mixed bag. Below is a list of standard storage devices you may find.

  • Hard drive (HDD)
  • Solid State Drive (SSD)
  • Non-Volatile Memory (NVMe or M.2)

Hard Drives This is for really budget hosting. You will notice significant slowdowns when starting your server, saving, or stopping. Hard drives have a lot of latency with Read or Write operations and have a very limited speed of only about 70MB/s to 140MB/s.

SATA SSDs This is what most computers have now adays. These are small tabs that store data via flash memory over a SATA connection. They have no spinning parts and are much faster with significantly less latency compared to hard drives. Their speeds vary from around 250MB/s to 500MB/s.

NVMe SSDs These are what to look for in Server Hosting. These are installed directly onto the motherboard via M.2. They have incredibly low latency and speeds ranging from 800MB/s to a blistering 8,000MB/s. It really depends on generation, but we'll touch on that later.

Capacity​

Most companies only have a few terabytes for the node itself. You can usually check this via plugins. However, when purchasing a server, your capacity needs may vary. We've added good rule-of-thumb of what to get as a minimum storage below.

Fully Generated 5000x5000 world:

  • Vanilla or Bukkit Fork (20GB)
  • Forge Modpack (35GB)

Fully Generated 10000x10000 world:

  • Vanilla or Bukkit Fork (60GB)
  • Forge Modpack (75GB)

Note: These are educational guesses and have not been clearly defined in testing. These are just to get an understand of space restraints based on world size.

NVMe Generation​

For simplicity we're only going to be talking about Gen 3 and above.

Different generations of NVMe will give wildly different results. A lot of hosts will just say "NVMe drives" because in reality, the extra bonuses past Gen 3 aren't very noticeable. However, we have still listed the difference in speeds below:

Gen 3

  • Read: 3000MB/s
  • Write: 2000MB/s

Gen 4

  • Read: 5000MB/s
  • Write: 4000MB/s

Gen 5

  • Read: 10GB/s
  • Write: 9.5GB/s