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Disk Configuration and Storage

Equinix Metal™ offers servers with multiple disk configurations and storage capabilities, as well as managed storage or support for third-party storage solutions.

Server Disk Configurations

Standard Server Plans

  • c3.medium.x86 - 2 x 480 GB SSD and 2 x 240 GB SSD
  • m3.large.x86 - 2 × 240 GB SSD and 2 x 3.8 TB of NVMe Flash
  • c3.large.arm64 - 2 x 960 GB NVMe
  • s3.xlarge.x86 - 2 × 960 GB SSD, 12 x 8 TB HDD, and 2 x 256 GB of NVMe Flash

Legacy Server Plans

  • c3.small.x86 - 2 x 480 GB
  • n2.xlarge.x86 - 2 × 120 GB SSD (Boot) and 1 x 3.8 TB of NVMe Flash
  • c2.large.arm - 1 × 480 GB SSD
  • c2.medium.x86 - 2 x 480 GB of SSD
  • m2.xlarge.x86 - 2 × 120 GB SSD and 3.2 TB of NVMe Flash
  • x2.xlarge.x86 - 1 × 120 GB SSD (Boot), 2 × 240 GB SSD, and 3.8 TB of NVMe Flash
  • g2.large.x86 - 1 x 150 GB SSD (Boot), 2 x 480 GB SSD

Drive Type Naming

It's worth noting that operating systems will use a different naming scheme for NVMe drives compared to standard SSDs and HDDs, which are usually seen in the format of sda, sdb etc. NVMe drives usually follow the naming scheme of nvme0n1, nvme1n1 etc.

To get accurate drive names, we suggest that when you provision the server, go into rescue mode (Alpine OS). Then run fdisk -l to list all drives.

Customizing Your Disk Configurations

If you want to be able to customize your disk configurations at provisioning time, you can use the Custom Partitioning and RAID feature, available on reserved servers.

Storage-focused Servers

Equinix Metal offers some servers with hardware specifically for building out storage. They have plan names starting with s, like the s3.xlarge.x86, which comes with 12 x 8 TB HDD.

But some of our other server also come with large amounts of storage in the form of NVMe flash drives, like the m3.large.x86, which comes with 2 x 3.8 TB of NVMe Flash. Large NVMe storage drives do require a little bit of configuration to partition and format, which is covered on the Configuring NVME Flash Drives page.

Storage Appliances

Equinix Metal offers storage appliances as hosted storage solutions. They provide single-tenant, high-performance storage that is available in any of Equinix Metal’s global locations. To get more information about each appliance, check out their solution briefs.

Third-party, DIY Solutions

Since Equinix Metal offers bare metal servers, you can architect your own storage by using third-party developed solutions.

For example, MinIO provides Object Storage for bare metal, API compatibility with other cloud providers, and has an open-source Equinix Metal Terraform MinIO template.

If you are running Kubernetes, you have many options for managing cluster storage. Our technical guides contain a Guide to Kubernetes Storage, and Choosing a CSI for Kubernetes.

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