{"rid":"storage/buyvm-block-storage-slabs","card":{"rid":"storage/buyvm-block-storage-slabs","eid":"buyvm","topic":"storage","slug":"buyvm-block-storage-slabs","provider":"BuyVM Block Storage Slabs","url":"https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/","domain":"buyvm.net","category":"block-storage","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-quota","vorder":6,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"sftp,rsync,nfs","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":10000000000000,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":5.18,"summary":"Sold in 256 GB chunks at $1.25/mo. Max 10 TB per Slab, max 8 Slabs per KVM Slice = 80 TB theoretical. Requires an accompanying KVM slice in the same facility...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"buyvm-block-storage-slabs","provider":"BuyVM Block Storage Slabs","url":"https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/","category":"block-storage","free_tier":{"stated":"Sold in 256 GB chunks at $1.25/mo. Max 10 TB per Slab, max 8 Slabs per KVM Slice = 80 TB theoretical. Requires an accompanying KVM slice in the same facility. Available Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Luxembourg.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"10 TB hard cap per","bytes":10000000000000,"source_url":"https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"'Unmetered Bandwidth' on every slice, governed by a fair-use rule the company states publicly on LET: 'The rule-of-thumb for WAN (internet-facing connections) is 100Mbit/s of 24/7 usage per every 4GB of memory with a purchased slice. We do, however, allow our customers to burst their usage up to 1Gbit/s during times of lower network use.' A second formulation from a customer cites 'FUP is 25 Mbps per 1GB of RAM for the 95th percentile'. So the storage is metered-free but the sustained rate is tied to how much RAM you bought — on the $3.50/mo 1 GB slice that is ~25 Mbps sustained, i.e. ~8 TB/mo. Internal traffic between services in the same location is genuinely unmetered and unbilled.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"8 TB per month"},"interface":["sftp","rsync","nfs"],"interface_detail":"block (attach as disk), then sftp/rsync/nfs from the slice","tooling":"anything — it is a raw block device on a KVM slice","chaining":"Hot-pluggable between slices in the same facility with no reboot, which makes it easy to re-front with a different server. No object API at all ('We may consider an Object Store product down the line, but not at this time').","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"10 TB hard cap per","source":"https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: none. Downgrade impossible — you must order a new slab and migrate. 10 TB hard cap per slab. Requires a base slice, so the true entry cost is a slice plus a slab.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"Frantech, operating since 2010, the most consistently recommended block-storage product on LET for a decade. Known friction: signup must come from a residential ISP and is refused from VPN/Tor/datacenter IPs, P.O. boxes rejected — a real obstacle for a privacy-conscious buyer but not an identity-document requirement. Storage is 'enterprise 7200RPM hard drives with an NVME cache and a 40Gbit+ InfiniBand'.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Block Storage Slabs are sold in chunks of 256GB for $1.25/month. A 1TB Block Storage Slab is $5.00/month, with a 10TB Block Storage Slab being just $50.00/month', max 10 TB/slab, max 8 slabs, four locations"},{"url":"https://buyvm.net/kvm-dedicated-server-slices/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"cheapest slice $24.00/yr (512 MB), $3.50/mo (1 GB), all 'Unmetered Bandwidth'"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/171839/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"BuyVM's quoted bandwidth rule: '100Mbit/s of 24/7 usage per every 4GB of memory'"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/186157/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'FUP is 25 Mbps per 1GB of RAM for the 95th percentile'"},{"url":"https://nokyc.host/provider/buyvm","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Registration and ordering must come from the client's residential ISP ... P.O. boxes and mail-forwarding addresses are refused'"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"$5.00/TB/mo flat, plus the base slice. At 5 TB: $25/mo slab + $3.50 slice = $28.50/mo = $5.70/TB all-in. At 20 TB: 2x 10 TB slabs = $100/mo + $3.50 = $103.50/mo = $5.18/TB. The all-in figure is what matters and it is worse than the headline because the slice is mandatory overhead.","notes":"Sold in 256 GB chunks at $1.25/mo. Max 10 TB per Slab, max 8 Slabs per KVM Slice = 80 TB theoretical. Requires an accompanying KVM slice in the same facility. Available Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Luxembourg.","extras":{"dead_end":{"failure_class":"quota","why":"Sold in 256 GB chunks at $1.25/mo. Max 10 TB per Slab, max 8 Slabs per KVM Slice = 80 TB theoretical. Requires an accompanying KVM slice in the same facility. Available Las Vegas, New York, Miami, Luxembourg.","retry_when":null,"first_recorded":"2026-10-21"},"price_verbatim":"$5.00/TB/mo flat, plus the base slice. At 5 TB: $25/mo slab + $3.50 slice = $28.50/mo = $5.70/TB all-in. At 20 TB: 2x 10 TB slabs = $100/mo + $3.50 = $103.50/mo = $5.18/TB. The all-in figure is what matters and it is worse than the headline because the slice is mandatory overhead."},"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":256,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":10,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":5.18,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":5.18,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.extras.dead_end.retry_when","process"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}