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 SSDm3.large.x86- 2 × 240 GB SSD and 2 x 3.8 TB of NVMe Flashc3.large.arm64- 2 x 960 GB NVMes3.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 GBn2.xlarge.x86- 2 × 120 GB SSD (Boot) and 1 x 3.8 TB of NVMe Flashc2.large.arm- 1 × 480 GB SSDc2.medium.x86- 2 x 480 GB of SSDm2.xlarge.x86- 2 × 120 GB SSD and 3.2 TB of NVMe Flashx2.xlarge.x86- 1 × 120 GB SSD (Boot), 2 × 240 GB SSD, and 3.8 TB of NVMe Flashg2.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.