{"rid":"storage/kyun-host-bricks","card":{"rid":"storage/kyun-host-bricks","eid":"kyun","topic":"storage","slug":"kyun-host-bricks","provider":"Kyun.host Bricks (HDD block)","url":"https://blog.kyun.sh/p/bricks","domain":"kyun.sh","category":"block-storage","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"rest,sftp,ssh,rclone","egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":20000000000000,"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":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":112.34,"summary":"HDD block volumes attached to a Danbo VM, Romania only. Initial beta run ~20 TB capacity total across all customers.","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":5},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"kyun-host-bricks","provider":"Kyun.host Bricks (HDD block)","url":"https://blog.kyun.sh/p/bricks","category":"block-storage","free_tier":{"stated":"HDD block volumes attached to a Danbo VM, Romania only. Initial beta run ~20 TB capacity total across all customers.","unit":"TB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://blog.kyun.sh/p/bricks","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"20 TB cap","bytes":20000000000000,"source_url":"https://blog.kyun.sh/p/bricks","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://blog.kyun.sh/p/bricks","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Not published as a per-plan number. The model is a VM plus attachable block, with the VM carrying the traffic allowance. Treat as unknown/unmetered-by-usage rather than free — this is a one-person operation and the beta explicitly has no published egress schedule.","metered":true},"interface":["rest","sftp","ssh","rclone"],"interface_detail":"block + sftp/ssh (Danbo), rest api","tooling":"rclone over SFTP, Kyun API v2 (api.kyun.sh/endpoints)","chaining":"Can be grown while attached, renamed in the UI, and switched between local SSD and Bricks 'with a single click'. Designed for media storage rather than hot reads.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"20 TB cap","source":"https://blog.kyun.sh/p/bricks"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: none. **Total supply is ~20 TB for the entire beta.** Price explicitly flagged as likely to rise: 'This price will probably increase a bit for future restocks'.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"email","country":null},"reliability_note":"The most honest reliability disclosure and simultaneously the worst track record. The provider's own post-Mesa writeup describes a migration that 'took about 5 days' with intermittent unreachability, a multi-week server-delivery failure, and states plainly: 'do NOT use Kyun for anything that earns you money without a verified, up to date backup that you can roll over to at a moment's notice'. Also notes customers 'reported us to the cops'. No identity documents required — a rare property here.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://blog.kyun.sh/p/bricks","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'The current price for the initial ~20TB beta run is 5 EUR/TB/month. This price will probably increase a bit for future restocks'"},{"url":"https://blog.kyun.host/p/mesa","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'Bricks are now 5 EUR/TB/mo, down from 7 EUR'; the operational post-mortem quoted above"},{"url":"https://cunicula.com/en/provider/kyun","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'it never asks for identity documents. An account is still required'; 'HDD block storage from €5/TB/month'"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"$5.62/TB/mo flat (€5). At 5 TB: €25 = $28.09/mo. At 20 TB: €100 = $112.34/mo. No volume break. The caveats (20 TB total supply, price flagged to rise, provider's own no-SLA warning) make this a poor primary and a reasonable third replica.","notes":"HDD block volumes attached to a Danbo VM, Romania only. Initial beta run ~20 TB capacity total across all customers.","extras":{"price_verbatim":"$5.62/TB/mo flat (€5). At 5 TB: €25 = $28.09/mo. At 20 TB: €100 = $112.34/mo. No volume break. The caveats (20 TB total supply, price flagged to rise, provider's own no-SLA warning) make this a poor primary and a reasonable third replica."},"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":20,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":20,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":112.34,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":112.34,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}