Life & fun · November 19, 2020
Zfs.rent
Colocate your own 3.5" SAS/SATA hard drives in a Tier 2 datacenter!Eliminate data transfer costs by shipping drives directly!
Zfs.rent launched on November 19, 2020 with 403 votes, #20 of 3,461 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
In plain words
Zfs.rent is a platform launched in 2020 that facilitates equipment rentals. It connects users who need temporary access to various items with owners willing to rent them out. The service operates in the life and fun category, making it useful for people seeking short-term use of equipment without purchasing. The platform streamlines the rental process by providing a marketplace where both renters and owners can list and manage transactions.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
zfs.rent is flat-rate — price doesn't scale with capacity! Note: You don't have to use ZFS... Hard drives are passed-through verbatim. Feel free to use btrfs, ext4, etc. — or a bunch of FAT32 partitions :) We offer fixed-rate, physical 3.5" hard-disk drive colocation. Each slot increases your VM specs by 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe. Manage your VM using our new control panel! Example shownfrom zfs.rent
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