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strato.de · Compute, Storage · 4 records · JSON

STRATO HiDrive Business StoragecaveatcardcardR
Strato HiDrive — 1 TB for 12 months at €0 (Valentine's promo) StoragetrialcardcardRper-object-cap
STRATO ComputepaidcardcardDper-ip-shaping
hidrive (strato) Storagedeademail?card?R

STRATO HiDrive Business Storage

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www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive-business/ · consumer/SMB cloud drive with protocol access · storage/strato-hidrive-business · JSON · compare

Free tier	1 / 3 / 5 / 10 TB unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	10 TB €90 ÷ 10 = €9.00/TB/mo. 5 TB €55 ÷ 5 = €11.00/TB. 3 TB €30 ÷ 3 = €10.00/TB. 1 TB €17.50/TB. ≈$10.44/TB at best. 4.4× Hetzner BX41 for the same capacity.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Not published as a volume on the pricing page. Protocol access (SFTP, WebDAV, SMB, rsync, SCP, Git) is tier-gated: 'Im Business Essential und Standard Tarif sind die Zugriffsmöglichkeiten WebDAV und SMB inklusive. Wenn Sie sich den Advanced oder Premium Tarif gesichert haben, sind alle genannten Zugriffsmöglichkeiten inklusive.' — i.e. rsync/SCP/SFTP may require the higher tier.
Identity	card card
Binding	none no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names
Interface	webdav, sftp, scp, rsync, smb, git, rclone WebDAV, SMB (lower tiers); + SFTP/SCP/rsync/Git (Advanced/Premium). rclone hidrive backend exists
Tooling	rclone `hidrive` backend
Composes with	rclone mount → Cloudflare
Reliability	STRATO is the German consumer-grade option; Wave-6 had flagged the 1 TB annual promo as 'trial-only, closed 2026-02-15' — the Business ladder below is the steady-state paid product, not that promo.
Notes	1 / 3 / 5 / 10 TB
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD10.44 TB / month

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive-business/	1 TB €17.50/mo, 3 TB €30/mo, 5 TB €55/mo, 10 TB €90/mo, setup €0.00, up to 20 users; promo rows 'danach 12,50 €/Mon.' (1TB), 'danach 25 €/Mon.' (3TB), 'danach 50 €/Mon.' (5TB), 'danach 85 €/Mon.' (10TB)
2026-10-21	www.strato.de/online-speicher/	consumer ladder Starter 500 GB €6, Basic 1 TB €7.50, Plus 2 TB €12.50, Family 2 TB €17.50
2026-10-21	www.strato.de/online-speicher/	protocol tier-gating clause and 'Zugriffsmöglichkeiten sind SFTP, WebDAV, SMB, rsync, SCP und Git' quoted verbatim

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{
 "price_verbatim": "10 TB €90 ÷ 10 = €9.00/TB/mo. 5 TB €55 ÷ 5 = €11.00/TB. 3 TB €30 ÷ 3 = €10.00/TB. 1 TB €17.50/TB. ≈$10.44/TB at best. 4.4× Hetzner BX41 for the same capacity."
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

Strato HiDrive — 1 TB for 12 months at €0 (Valentine's promo) Storage

trialcardcardRper-object-cap

www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive/ · cloud-drive · storage/strato-hidrive-1-tb-for-12-months-at-0 · JSON · compare

Free tier	1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic \| 1 TB \| 12 Monate \| 0 € \| danach 5 €/Mon.' STATUS CAVEAT: the 2026 round closed on 15.02.26 ('Nur bis 15.02.26') and the live valentinsaktion URL now 301s away, so this is NOT orderable today — it is recorded as an annual recurring window (Feb), which is what makes it the slot's only repeatable >=1 TB free allocation. unit TB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	No per-file cap published on the plan page
Retention	not stated
Egress	No traffic meter appears on the HiDrive plan page; the plan is sold on capacity only. Unverified whether egress is genuinely unmetered — Strato does not publish a traffic line for HiDrive, which in the German market usually means no byte meter.
Identity	card card
Limits	per-object-cap No per-file cap published on the plan page source Contract term 12 months; auto-renews at €5/mo unless cancelled before expiry — this is the real trap and the reason it is 'trial-like'. Signup requires a full checkout with payment details (card/SEPA/PayPal) even at €0. No per-file cap published on the plan page.
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
Interface	rest, webdav, sftp, ftps, rsync, smb, ssh, rclone rest
Tooling	rclone has a first-class 'hidrive' backend (added v1.59, Tier 1) — https://rclone.org/hidrive/ — plus plain WebDAV, SMB/CIFS, SFTP/FTPS and rsync-via-ssh. This is the best tooling of anything in this slot: a native rclone backend, not a webdav shim.
Composes with	One promo contract per customer per year, but the promo is ANNUAL and structural — LowEndTalk users state 'They do this every year' (Feb 2024, Feb 2025, Feb 2026 all ran a 1 TB-for-a-year campaign). So the repeatability is temporal, not per-account: N years x 1 TB with a cancel-before-renewal ritual, or N household members x 1 TB.
Reliability	Established German host (Strato/IONOS group), German datacentre, TÜV/DSGVO claims. The recurring failure mode reported on LET is billing, not data: forget to cancel and you are charged for year two. Data itself is not reported to vanish.
Notes	1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic \| 1 TB \| 12 Monate \| 0 € \| danach 5 €/Mon.' STATUS CAVEAT: the 2026 round closed on 15.02.26 ('Nur bis 15.02.26') and the live valentinsaktion URL now 301s away, so this is NOT orderable today — it is recorded as an annual recurring window (Feb), which is what makes it the slot's only repeatable >=1 TB free allocation.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	web.archive.org/web/20260214235234id_/https://www.strato.de/	'HiDrive Valentins-Aktion / 1 TB Cloud-Speicher kostenlos nutzen … HIDRIVE Basic 1 TB 12 Monate 0 € danach 5 €/Mon.'
2026-10-21	lowendtalk.com/discussion/214190/strato-hidrive-1tb-12-month	'Strato offers its HiDrive Cloud with 1TB for 0 euros until 15.02.26. The period is 12 months and without setup fee'; comment: 'They do this every year, its a contract though, if you don't cancel, you renew for another year and they charge you.'
2026-10-21	www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/hidrive/	current plan page lists protocols 'WebDAV, SMB' and a 1 TB tier at 6 €/mo list price
2026-10-21	rclone.org/hidrive/	rclone backend exists, 'added in v1.59', Tier 1

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  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "1 TB, 12 months, €0 (setup €0). Regular price after the free year is €5/month. Captured promo page states verbatim: 'HIDRIVE Basic | 1 TB | 12 Monate | 0 € | danach 5 €/Mon.' STATUS CAVEAT: the 2026 round closed on 15.02.26 ('Nur bis 15.02.26') and the live valentinsaktion URL now 301s away, so this is NOT orderable today — it is recorded as an annual recurring window (Feb), which is what makes it the slot's only repeatable >=1 TB free allocation.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (5)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted

STRATO Compute

paidcardcardDper-ip-shaping

www.strato.de/server/windows-vserver/ · Windows VPS · compute/strato-windows · JSON · compare

Free tier	no free tier; VPS XL is EUR 79.00/month including 19% VAT, and the first three months of a 12-month term are EUR 48.00/month including VAT unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	the disk persists for the contract term; the 12-month table prices the first three months at EUR 48.00 and the rest at EUR 79.00
Egress	unlimited traffic on a port up to 1,000 Mbit/s; no byte quota or rate is published free_allowance: unlimited
Identity	card an account and a payment method at order; the order flow is account-gated and its instrument list was not read
Limits	per-ip-shaping up to 1,000 Mbit/s port source volume-quota traffic is called unlimited and no rate is published source prices are printed including 19% VAT; the 1-month table adds EUR 9.00 setup, the 6-month table has no setup line, and the 12-month table has no setup line
Binding	per-ip-shaping the 1 Gbit/s port is the first hard ceiling; traffic is unlimited without a published rate.
Interface	unknown RDP over a public IPv4; no public API is documented on the page read
Tooling	any RDP client; the provider's control panel
Composes with	8 vCPU and 16 GiB for about USD 74 net a month, which is the cheapest German-market row whose licence is bundled rather than itemised
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The EUR 79.00 is VAT-inclusive, so a buyer outside the EU pays the net EUR 66.39 if the reverse-charge rule applies; both figures are recorded because the tax basis is not established. The EUR 48.00 first-quarter rate is a promo; the steady rate is EUR 79.00 including VAT.
Evidence rung	documented the shape, the VAT-inclusive prices and the term tables are printed on the page read today. The licence is included on the evidence of the same hardware costing EUR 39.00 on the Linux page against EUR 79.00 on the Windows page, a EUR 40.00 gap; the page does not itemise it.
Checked	2026-10-27 (live); stale on 2026-11-26
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.monthly_usd` price USD74.31 / month

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-26	www.strato.de/server/windows-vserver/	quoted: 'VPS XL 8 vCores 480 GB NVMe Storage 16 GB RAM 48 EUR/Mon. Aktion fuer 3 Monate danach 79 EUR/Mon.' and 'Preise inkl. MwSt.'
2026-10-26	www.strato.de/server/windows-vserver/	the term tables print EUR 79.00 on the 1-month table with EUR 9.00 setup, and EUR 48.00 for months 1 to 3 of the 12-month table followed by EUR 79.00
2026-10-26	www.strato.de/server/linux-vserver/	the same VPS XL hardware is EUR 39.00 on the Linux page, a EUR 40.00 gap against the Windows price that is consistent with a bundled licence

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 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 8,
  "ram_gib": 16,
  "disk_gib": 480
 },
 "billing_model": "monthly, 6-month or 12-month",
 "term": "12 months for the promo",
 "price_eur_incl_vat": 79.0,
 "price_eur_net": 66.39,
 "promo_eur_incl_vat": 48.0,
 "promo_eur_net": 40.34,
 "promo_months": 3,
 "setup_fee_eur_1mo": 9.0,
 "monthly_usd": 74.31,
 "first_month_usd": 45.15,
 "monthly_usd_incl_vat": 88.43,
 "monthly_usd_net": 74.31,
 "first_month_usd_incl_vat": 53.73,
 "first_month_usd_net": 45.15,
 "fx": {
  "pair": "EUR/USD",
  "rate": 1.1193,
  "date": "2026-10-23",
  "source": "ECB reference via frankfurter.app"
 },
 "vat_note": "19% German VAT is included in the printed price; a non-EU buyer may pay the net figure, which was not confirmed at checkout",
 "windows_licence": "included; derived from the EUR 40.00 Linux-to-Windows gap",
 "ipv4_included": true,
 "port_mbps": 1000,
 "traffic": "unlimited, no published rate",
 "stock": "orderable; no stock count published",
 "cart_url": "https://www.strato.de/server/windows-vserver/"
}

Unknown or withheld values (3)

$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed

hidrive (strato) Storage

deademail?card?R

www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/ · rejected-provider · storage/hidrive · JSON · compare

Free tier	free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T
Notes	free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/	free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30 current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T
2026-10-21	free.arinco.org/storage/hidrive/	cited as the basis of the rejection: free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T
2026-10-21	webdav.hidrive.strato.com/	cited as the basis of the rejection: free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "dead-service",
  "why": "free 5 GB tier was discontinued — the free plan ended 2020-04-30; current entry plan is 500 GB at 6 EUR/month. WebDAV endpoint still live (PROPFIND -> 405 unauthenticated) and rclone has a T",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (15)

$.chaining not-recorded
$.confidence_note withheld
$.egress.terms not-recorded
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded