Where can I get a VPS with 1 TB of storage?

What does "1 TB VPS" mean?

At Coffervale, a 1 TB VPS is a virtual server with one terabyte of disk space. Search engines and forums mix two things under the same words: some people looking for a "1TB VPS" want 1 TB of storage, others a server with 1 TB of RAM, which is a different machine at a different price. Ours is the first kind: a KVM server sized for disk, with enough processor and memory to run backup software, a sync service or a small web app on top of that disk.

A terabyte here is 1,000 GB, the way disk makers count it. Your operating system may show the same disk as about 931 GiB, because it counts in powers of two: same bytes, different unit. A fresh ext4 filesystem also keeps 5% of its blocks for root by default; on a disk used only for data you can lower that with tune2fs -m 1.

What fits in 1 TB?

One terabyte holds a large personal archive or the backups of a few machines, not a media library that keeps growing. Rough arithmetic, before compression or deduplication:

• photos from a phone at about 4 MB each: around 250,000 of them;
• a laptop with 250 GB of files: four full copies, and far more when a deduplicating tool such as Borg, restic or Kopia stores only the blocks that changed;
• documents and email exports: years of them, since text compresses well.

If you expect to pass 1 TB within a year, start on Shale (2 TB), which costs $1.67 per TB a month on 12 months, almost the same rate per terabyte as Clay. To grow, order a larger plan and copy your data across with rsync or zfs send; resizing a running server in place is not offered at launch.

How much does 1 TB of storage cost elsewhere?

On 2 November 2026, a 1 TB storage VPS from a host that takes crypto and asks for no ID document at signup cost from $2.22 a month. According to Coffervale's survey of 2 November 2026, those hosts listed 14 storage VPS plans of about 1 TB, 9 of them with 2 GB of RAM or less; every seller, with stock and source, is in what is the least expensive storage VPS per TB right now?. Storage boxes and backup services are listed too, because people weigh them against a VPS: they cost about the same per terabyte or more, but give you no server of your own.

What can a 1 TB VPS run?

With 2 vCPU and 3 GB RAM, Clay runs the usual storage jobs comfortably.

• A backup target for Borg, restic, Kopia or plain rsync over SSH. These tools encrypt on your side before upload, so the server holds only ciphertext; the routine is in how do I use a VPS for off-site backups?.
• Nextcloud or Seafile for one to a few people. HDD storage is fine for files; keep the database small and on the same server, or pick Shale for more memory headroom, as weighed in what is the best VPS for Nextcloud with 1 TB or more of storage?.
• An always-on Syncthing node that keeps folders in step between devices.

What it is not built for: databases with heavy random writes, or anything that needs SSD response times. Every plan stores your data on hard disks (HDD) chosen for capacity, not speed: they suit backups, archives and file sync, not databases or heavy random reads and writes. We publish no speed or IOPS figure we cannot back.

500 GB, 1 TB or 2 TB: which one?

Pick the size that will still have room in a year, then the term. Silt (500 GB) costs $1.24 a month on 12 months, Clay (1 TB) $1.66, and Shale (2 TB) $3.34. Per terabyte, Clay and Shale are the best value of the five plans, at $1.66 and $1.67; Silt costs more per terabyte because its processor and memory weigh more against a smaller disk. Every price and term is on the pricing page.