{
  "id": 18086403,
  "title": "Price per TB of Server Storage in 2026: 999 Plans, SSD and HDD Ranked Separately",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/price-per-tb-of-server-storage-in-2026-999-plans-ssd-and-hdd-ranked",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-04T07:36:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/hostingsift/price-per-tb-of-server-storage-in-2026-999-plans-ssd-and-hdd-ranked-separately-j8m"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In November 2026, the cheapest terabyte of SSD storage on a virtual private server (VPS) among the 45 hosts tracked by HostingSift was Contabo's Storage VPS 30, offering a 1 TB SSD for €11.20 per month (equivalent to $12.88 per TB). This made Contabo the leader among the tracked hosts, with the median across 629 SSD and NVMe VPS plans from 37 hosts being $279 per TB.\n\nHowever, the price per TB for SSD storage does not necessarily decrease as the overall storage capacity increases. Among VPS plans with at least 1 TB of SSD, the median price per TB was $416, while plans with less than 50 GB of SSD storage had a median price of $261 per TB. This indicates that hosts size disk storage based on RAM, with the median plan carrying 16.7 GB of disk space for every GB of memory.",
  "summary": "The typical VPS among the 45 hosts we track charges $279 a month per terabyte of SSD . Contabo's Storage VPS 30 charges $12.88. Hetzner's SX65, a dedicated server with four 16 TB hard drives, works out to $1.51. That is a 185x spread for the same unit, measured on one night: HostingSift's price snapshot of 3 November 2026, 999 plans. Most of that spread comes from how disk is packaged. A few…",
  "key_points": [
    "Contabo's Storage VPS 30 offers cheapest SSD at $12.88 per TB in Nov 2026",
    "Median SSD price $279 per TB across 629 plans from 37 hosts",
    "Larger SSD plans cost more per TB than smaller ones"
  ],
  "editors_take": "The tendency for larger storage plans to command higher per-terabyte costs suggests that hosting providers prioritize memory-to-disk ratios over simple volume discounts when structuring their virtual private server offerings.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}