{"rid":"storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx41","card":{"rid":"storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx41","eid":"hetzner","topic":"storage","slug":"hetzner-storage-box-bx41","provider":"Hetzner Storage Box BX41 (20 TB)","url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/","domain":"hetzner.com","category":"managed storage box (HDD, RAID6)","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies","vorder":0,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"per-ip-shaping","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"s3,webdav,sftp,ftps,scp,rsync,smb,ssh,rclone","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-20","n_evidence":8,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":54.1116,"summary":"BX11 1 TB · BX21 5 TB · BX31 10 TB · BX41 20 TB. Prices excl. VAT: €3.20 / €10.90 / €20.80 / €40.60 per month.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":8},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"hetzner-storage-box-bx41","provider":"Hetzner Storage Box BX41 (20 TB)","url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/","category":"managed storage box (HDD, RAID6)","free_tier":{"stated":"BX11 1 TB · BX21 5 TB · BX31 10 TB · BX41 20 TB. Prices excl. VAT: €3.20 / €10.90 / €20.80 / €40.60 per month.","unit":"TB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"VERBATIM: \"Traffic: Unlimited *\" on every tier, and \"Each Storage Box comes with unlimited traffic\" (docs). The asterisk is a real fair-use clause: a documented 2022 enforcement email told a customer \"your traffic use, which currently averages above 250 TB/month ... is far above what we consider fair use.\" At a user's  500 GB-1 TiB/day serving load (~15-30 TB/mo) he is an order of magnitude below the only threshold Hetzner has ever enforced.","metered":false,"free_allowance":"250 TB per month"},"interface":["s3","webdav","sftp","ftps","scp","rsync","smb","ssh","rclone"],"interface_detail":"SFTP, SCP, rsync, FTPS, SMB/CIFS, WebDAV, BorgBackup, SSH (port 23); 100 sub-accounts; 10 concurrent connections","tooling":"No S3 endpoint — this is the one real gap. rclone via SFTP or WebDAV; Borg/restic first-class","chaining":"WebDAV -> AList -> Cloudflare works. 100 sub-accounts let you hand one directory each to separate services.","limits":[{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"10 concurrent connections","source":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/"},{"kind":"per-ip-shaping","value":"32 parallel streams","source":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/"}],"limits_note":"10 concurrent connections per box is the binding constraint for parallel ranged GET benchmarks (rule 6 in §1.4 applies: this host will NOT scale to 32 parallel streams). No object API, so no presigned URLs; every read goes through your WebDAV/SFTP proxy layer.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"The most reliable option in this dossier by a wide margin — Hetzner's own DCs (FSN1/HEL1), RAID6, snapshots, 100k+ customer scale. Cost: aggressive new-account KYC. LET threads document ID-card scans being requested and accounts silently refused for country/risk reasons; UnionPay accepted but does not waive KYC.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"re-read from read-broker on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200, 7332 bytes, sha256 e5e1ee04e00ee5eb). The page states the number in the record; the claim is documented, not measured. | re-read 2026-10-22 from the raw HTML (HTTP 200, 116,243 bytes, sha256 recorded in the capture). The price is documented; it is not a measured transaction.","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"BX41 is EUR 40.60 per month for 20 TB. Re-read the raw HTML: HTTP 200, 116,243 bytes; the price block reads product-key=\"ROBOT_1336\" and '€ 40.60 per month, excl. VAT', and the 20 TB row reads '20 TB Upgrade/Downgrade'."},{"url":"https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/general/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"each Storage Box includes unlimited traffic. Re-read https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/general/: HTTP 200, 7332 bytes, sha256 e5e1ee04e00ee5eb. Quoted: x. ## Pricing For information about available plans and prices, see [hetzner.com/storage/storage-box](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/). Each Storage Box comes with unlimited traffic. ## Additional users The original user is the main user. Via Hetzner Console, you can add additional users which will be sub-accounts. The main user has complete access to all directories — including all sub-account directories. 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VAT with the storage table 1/5/10/20 TB and \"Traffic | Unlimited\""},{"url":"https://docs.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/general/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"\"Each Storage Box comes with unlimited traffic\", protocol list"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180504/hetzner-traffic-use-notice-unlimited-unlimited","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"the 250 TB/month fair-use enforcement email, verbatim"},{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207732/hetzner-storage-box-new-account-verification","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"and /217671 — KYC rejections"},{"url":"https://fsn1-speed.hetzner.com/10GB.bin","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"Single-stream ranged GET of 200 MB from a residential line measured 1.05 MB/s (47 MB in 45 s) — i.e. the client's own uplink was the limiter, not Hetzner; do not read this as a Hetzner throughput figure."}],"verdict":"qualifies","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"€2.03/TB/mo at the 20 TB tier (€40.60/20). 5 TB workload: BX21 = €2.18/TB/mo. 20 TB workload: BX41 = €2.03/TB/mo. ~$2.19 and ~$2.19 at 1.08 USD/EUR. 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