Hetzner Storage Box BX11 — 1 TB, €3.20/mo (price floor, no free tier)
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-1-tb-3-20-mosays card, storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-bx21-bx31 says email - verdict:
storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-1-tb-3-20-mosays fails-quota, storage/hetzner-storage-box-bx11-bx21-bx31 says qualifies
- Free allowance
- BX11 = 1 TB at €3.20/month excl.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capNo per-file cap published
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | BX11 = 1 TB at €3.20/month excl. VAT (€0.0051/hr). Ladder: BX21 5 TB €10.90, BX31 10 TB €20.80, BX41 20 TB €40.60. Zero setup fee on every tier. No free tier of any size. unit TB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
10 concurrent connections is the binding limit, not bytes — a parallel-GET benchmark will be shaped by connection count: 32 parallel ranged GETs cannot be opened here, only 10. 10 snapshots. No per-file cap published. |
| Binding | per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota |
| Identity | card card |
| Egress | Traffic is not the billed axis for Storage Box — pricing is capacity-only across the ladder (BX11 through BX41 differ solely in TB and hourly rate). This is the cheapest per-TB 'real storage you can serve from' in the entire corpus. |
| Per-object cap | No per-file cap published |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | webdav, sftp, ftps, ftp, scp, rsync, smb, ssh, rclone sftp |
| Tooling | 10 concurrent connections, 10 snapshots, 100 sub-accounts. |
| Composes with | No free allowance — this is a cost benchmark, not a free source. Its role in the report is as the denominator: at €3.20/TB/mo, 20 TB cold archive is €40.60/mo, which is the number every 'free' claim in this corpus must beat. |
| Reliability | RAID with checksums, explicitly NOT mirrored off-site ('The data is not mirrored onto other servers'). Snapshots can be automated. Long-standing German host; no data-loss pattern in these forums. |
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ | 'BX11 … € 3.20 per month, excl. VAT … € 0.0051 per hour'; 'BX21 … € 10.90'; 'BX31 … € 20.80'; 'BX41 … € 40.60' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx11/ | '10 concurrent connections … BorgBackup / rsync via SSH / Restic / Rclone'; 'The data is not mirrored onto other servers' |
| 2026-10-21 | hostloc.com/thread-1305667-1-1.html | Chinese forum thread '最实惠的文件备份存储空间 Hetzner Storage Boxes' (the same conclusion reached independently on Hostloc before it closed) |
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