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Best Block Storage Solutions

Compare the Top Block Storage Solutions as of October 2025

What are Block Storage Solutions?

Block storage solutions and software are designed to help organizations store "blocks," which are volumes of structured object data. Block storage systems streamline the process of handling block storage. Compare and read user reviews of the best Block Storage solutions currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    QuantaStor

    QuantaStor

    OSNEXUS

    QuantaStor is a unified Software-Defined Storage platform designed to scale up and out to make storage management easy while reducing overall enterprise storage costs. With support for all major file, block, and object protocols including iSCSI/FC, NFS/SMB, and S3, QuantaStor storage grids may be configured to address the needs of complex workflows which span sites and datacenters. QuantaStor’s storage grid technology is a built-in federated management system which enables QuantaStor servers to be combined together to simplify management and automation via CLI and REST APIs. The layered architecture of QuantaStor provides solution engineers with unprecedented flexibility and application design options that maximizes workload performance and fault-tolerance for a wide range of storage workloads. QuantaStor includes end-to-end security coverage enabling multi-layer data protection “on the wire” and “at rest” for enterprise and cloud storage deployments.
    Starting Price: $/TB based on scale
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    Google Cloud Platform
    Google Cloud Platform provides high-performance block storage through Google Cloud Persistent Disks, offering scalable and durable storage for virtual machine instances. These disks are available in different types, such as standard HDD and SSD, to accommodate varying workload demands. New customers can take advantage of $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads, allowing them to explore block storage options and assess how GCP's persistent disks can support their specific use cases. Persistent Disks also offer features like snapshots and automatic replication, which provide extra layers of data protection and recovery options. Additionally, businesses can attach persistent disks to any VM, allowing for flexibility in scaling storage requirements as applications evolve. These persistent storage solutions are fully integrated with GCP's compute services, ensuring fast and reliable access to data.
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    Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits)
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    CloudPe

    CloudPe

    Leapswitch Networks

    CloudPe is a global cloud solutions provider offering scalable and secure cloud technologies tailored for businesses of all sizes. As a collaborative venture between Leapswitch Networks and Strad Solutions, CloudPe combines extensive industry expertise to deliver innovative services. Key Offerings: Virtual Machines: High-performance VMs designed for various business needs, including hosting websites, building applications, and data processing. GPU Instances: NVIDIA-powered GPUs for AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing, available on-demand. Kubernetes-as-a-Service: Simplified container orchestration for deploying and managing containerized applications efficiently. S3-Compatible Storage: Highly scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Load Balancers: Intelligent load balancing to distribute traffic evenly across resources, ensuring fast and reliable performance. Why Choose CloudPe? 1. Reliability 2. Cost Efficiency 3. Instant Deployment
    Starting Price: ₹931/month
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    BVR CLOUD

    BVR CLOUD

    BVR CLOUD

    BVR CLOUD is an American privately-owned cloud hosting company that provides Cloud Products Ranging from Virtual Machines to Managed Satellites. Currently, it Provides More than 50 Products." BVR CLOUD Products Includes Virtual Machines Baremetal Servers GPU Kubernetes Virtual Desktops Onetime Bandwidth Object Storage Block Storage Longterm Store Longterm Store Plus Content Delivery Network Cloud firewall Managed Satellites Audio/Video Streaming Transcoder Loadbalancer, etc.
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    Starting Price: $10
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    Zadara

    Zadara

    Zadara Storage

    Zadara is enterprise storage made easy. Any data type. Any protocol. Any location. Get Zadara — on your premises or with your chosen cloud provider — and you get more than industry-leading enterprise storage. You get a fully-managed, pay-only-for-what-you-use service that eliminates the cost and complexity typically associated with enterprise storage.
    Starting Price: $0.02/GB/month
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    simplyblock

    simplyblock

    simplyblock

    Simplyblock provides a distributed storage solution for IO-intensive and latency-sensitive container workloads in the cloud, offering an alternative to Elastic Block Storage services. The storage solution enables thin provisioning, encryption, compression, storage virtualization, and more. Ultra-high performance at low TCO, offering available for AWS, fully containerized, deployment. Up to 100x improved cost-to-performance over currently prevailing software-defined storage technologies like Ceph. Start from single node, grow to 255 nodes in a single cluster. Scales safely with zero downtime. Performance scales linearly. Storage entities (logical volumes) are provisioned and attached on cluster-level, no manual configuration required. Drop-in replacement for your current k8s storage solution. Offers easy integration via StorageClass. Write concurrently on multiple containers and nodes via distributed file system support.
    Starting Price: $20/TB/month
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    DRBD

    DRBD

    LINBIT

    DRBD® (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is an open source, software‑based, shared‑nothing block storage replication solution for Linux, designed primarily to deliver high-performance, high‑availability (HA) data services by mirroring local block devices between nodes in real time, either synchronously or asynchronously. Implemented deep in the Linux kernel as a virtual block‑device driver, DRBD ensures local read performance with efficient write‑through replication to peer(s). User‑space utilities like drbdadm, drbdsetup, and drbdmeta enable declarative configuration, metadata management, and administration across installations. Originally built for two‑node HA clusters, DRBD 9.x extends support to multi‑node replication and integration into software‑defined storage (SDS) systems such as LINSTOR, making it suitable for cloud‑native environments.
    Starting Price: Free
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    DataCore SANsymphony

    DataCore SANsymphony

    DataCore Software

    Are you troubled by storage management nightmares? Whether you are losing sleep over managing different storage tiers for hot, warm, and cold data, or finding it hard to address disruptions and slowdowns, you can now rest easy with a truly software-defined storage solution. DataCore SANsymphony enables you to centrally automate and manage capacity provisioning and data placement across your diverse storage environment (any SAN, DAS, HCI, or JBOD). Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology and a rich set of data services, SANsymphony gives ultimate flexibility to control how you want to store and protect your data. SANsymphony allows any combination of hyper-converged, converged, and storage virtualization deployment models to reduce business risks, IT complexities and costs associated with various architectures, data migration initiatives and protocols. DataCore’s hardware-agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in & provides ultimate flexibility.
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    Oracle Big Data Service
    Oracle Big Data Service makes it easy for customers to deploy Hadoop clusters of all sizes, with VM shapes ranging from 1 OCPU to a dedicated bare metal environment. Customers choose between high-performance NVmE storage or cost-effective block storage, and can grow or shrink their clusters. Quickly create Hadoop-based data lakes to extend or complement customer data warehouses, and ensure that all data is both accessible and managed cost-effectively. Query, visualize and transform data so data scientists can build machine learning models using the included notebook with its R, Python and SQL support. Move customer-managed Hadoop clusters to a fully-managed cloud-based service, reducing management costs and improving resource utilization.
    Starting Price: $0.1344 per hour
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    Azure Disk Storage
    Designed to be used with Azure Virtual Machines and Azure VMware Solution (in preview), Azure Disk Storage offers high-performance, durable block storage for your mission- and business-critical applications. Confidently migrate to Azure infrastructure with four disk storage options for the cloud—–Ultra Disk Storage, Premium SSD, Standard SSD, and Standard HDD—to optimize costs and performance for your workload. Get high performance with sub-millisecond latency for throughput and transaction-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, SQL Server, and Oracle. Run clustered or high-availability applications cost effectively in the cloud using shared disks. Get consistent enterprise-grade durability with a 0% annual failure rate. Meet demand without performance disruption by using Ultra Disk Storage. Secure your data with automatic encryption using Microsoft-managed keys or your own.
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    IBM Storage Ceph
    Consolidate block, file, and object data on-premises with an enterprise storage platform that delivers a cloud-native experience. IBM Storage Ceph is an enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data to help organizations eliminate data silos and deliver a cloud-like experience while helping reduce costs and provisioning times.​ IT Leaders are shifting from a traditional storage approach towards integrated enterprise storage platforms that can handle diverse modern workloads seamlessly across on-premises and hybrid environments to simplify IT operations, reduce costs, and adapt to new and changing requirements.​ IBM Storage Ceph is the only enterprise storage platform that unifies block, file, and object data protocols within a single software-defined solution that can support most enterprise operational workloads to help reduce long-term costs of operating dedicated storage systems, delivering a cloud-like experience on-premises.​
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    NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
    Enterprise-grade storage wherever your apps are. Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security and compliance. Easily calculate your storage costs on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with Cloud Volumes ONTAP using this free, simplified and easy to navigate calculator.
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    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supports traditional workloads and delivers modern cloud development tools. It is architected to detect and defend against modern threats, so you can innovate more. Combine low cost with high performance to lower your TCO. Oracle Cloud is a Generation 2 enterprise cloud that delivers powerful compute and networking performance and includes a comprehensive portfolio of infrastructure and platform cloud services. Built from the ground up to meet the needs of mission-critical applications, Oracle Cloud supports all legacy workloads while delivering modern cloud development tools, enabling enterprises to bring their past forward as they build their future. Our Generation 2 Cloud is the only one built to run Oracle Autonomous Database, the industry's first and only self-driving database. Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive cloud computing portfolio, from application development and business analytics to data management, integration, security, AI & blockchain.
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    Red Hat Ceph Storage
    Red Hat® Ceph Storage is an open, massively scalable, simplified storage solution for modern data pipelines. Engineered for data analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), and emerging workloads, Red Hat Ceph Storage delivers software-defined storage on your choice of industry-standard hardware. Scale to unprecedented levels, up to 1 billion objects and beyond, without compromising on performance. Expand or shrink storage clusters with no downtime. Gain the agility you need to get to market faster. Start faster with dramatically simplified installation. Quickly gain insights from massive amounts of unstructured data with streamlined operation, monitoring, and capacity management. Safeguard your data from outside threats and hardware failures with integrated data protection and data security features, including client-side and object-level encryption. Easily handle backup and recovery with a single point of control and administration.
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    Nutanix Files Storage
    Nutanix Files Storage is a simple, flexible and intelligent scale-out file storage service for the data driven era. Update non-disruptively with a single click, and manage all storage from a single pane of glass. Scale-up or scale-out flexibly on the hardware of your choice and enjoy cloud-like consumption. Know your data, who’s using it, and how—and then drive automated management and control. IDC study shows how Nutanix Files Storage reduces operational overhead by 66% over traditional siloed storage resulting in 414% ROI and 7 month pay back. Nutanix Files Storage is built to handle billions of files and tens of thousands of user sessions. As your environment grows, just one click will elastically scale your cluster up by adding more compute and/or memory to the file server VMs, or out by adding more file server VMs. All from a single platform. You can also provide object and block storage using the same resources.
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    IBM Storage Software Suite
    Improve the way you manage, protect and store data, with unlimited access to select IBM SDS products and IBM Cloud®Object Storage. IBM Storage Software Suite provides a unified interface that streamlines data management, and cost-per-TB pricing makes it easier to plan as your capacity grows. Non-production use of the software in test environments is included. Straightforward per-TB pricing for the entire suite is related to the amount of storage capacity, not the type of storage or how it is used. There are no licensing headaches when changing from one type of storage to another or from one data type to another. All the IBM Storage Software Suite products share a consistent user interface, reducing user errors and the need for training. All the products are designed to work together, streamlining integration and worldwide support for the complete solution.
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    OpenEBS

    OpenEBS

    OpenEBS

    OpenEBS builds on Kubernetes to enable Stateful applications to easily access Dynamic Local PVs or Replicated PVs. By using the Container Attached Storage pattern users report lower costs, easier management, and more control for their teams. OpenEBS is a 100% Open Source CNCF project made by MayaData & the community. Prominent users include Arista, Optoro, Orange, Comcast and the CNCF itself. Automated provisioning and storage replication across pods is challenging. OpenEBS makes complex cross-cloud stateful application storage easy. Unlike CSI plugins or Linux kernel dependent software, OpenEBS runs entirely in userspace, making deployment and maintenance a snap. The largest, most active Kubernetes storage project with the biggest user base and community, OpenEBS is built by K8s SREs, and experts just like you, tailored to their needs. OpenEBS orchestrates storage for any Kubernetes stack.
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    Pure Cloud Block Store
    Your data uses less cloud storage infrastructure due to Pure’s industry-leading data compression, thin provisioning, and deduplication. Benefit from snapshots and clones that consume no additional cloud storage. Pure’s validated Terraform provider for Pure Cloud Block Store jump-starts automation of storage and cloud workflows. Instant, space-saving snapshots and clones in the cloud accelerate DevTest and dramatically improve software time to market and TCO. Achieve high availability with efficient, reliable replication within a cloud or between public clouds. Enable multicloud business continuity and disaster recovery. Experience continuous uptime, always-on encryption, and ransomware data protection. Pure Cloud Block Store is an enterprise-grade architecture that brings industry leading primary storage and enterprise data services to the cloud. It leverages cloud native resources to deliver an optimized cloud experience that is continuously improved over time.
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    Lucidity

    Lucidity

    Lucidity

    Lucidity is a multi-cloud storage management platform that dynamically resizes block storage across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud without downtime, enabling enterprises to save up to 70% on storage costs. Lucidity automates the expansion and contraction of storage volumes based on real-time data demands, ensuring optimal disk utilization between 75-80%. This autonomous, application-agnostic solution integrates seamlessly with existing applications and environments, requiring no code changes or manual provisioning efforts. Lucidity's AutoScaler is available on the AWS Marketplace, offering enterprises an automated solution to expand and shrink live EBS volumes based on workload without downtime. By streamlining operations, Lucidity enables IT and DevOps teams to reclaim hundreds of hours, allowing them to focus on higher-impact initiatives that drive innovation and efficiency.
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    HorizonIQ

    HorizonIQ

    HorizonIQ

    HorizonIQ is a comprehensive IT infrastructure provider offering managed private cloud, bare metal servers, GPU clusters, and hybrid cloud solutions designed for performance, security, and cost efficiency. Our managed private cloud services, powered by Proxmox VE or VMware, deliver dedicated virtualized environments ideal for AI workloads, general computing, and enterprise applications. HorizonIQ's hybrid cloud solutions enable seamless integration between private infrastructure and over 280 public cloud providers, facilitating real-time scalability and cost optimization. Our packages offer all-in-one solutions combining compute, network, storage, and security, tailored for various workloads from web applications to high-performance computing. With a focus on single-tenant environments, HorizonIQ ensures compliance with standards like HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS, while providing 1a 00% uptime SLA and proactive management through their Compass portal.
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    Stratoscale

    Stratoscale

    Stratoscale

    Stratoscale enables IT to operate as an internal cloud service provider, so that IT can offer single-click / on-demand consumption of resources and managed open source technologies, and respond at the speed of the public cloud. Stratoscale’s multi-cloud hybrid platform delivers true infrastructure-as-a-service, ideal for DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code automation. With single-panel monitoring and scaling of all resources and services as well as automation of the entire life cycle of open source technologies, IT can now shift focus to business specific innovation, governance and compliance. APIs are the best way to consume open-source technologies. But different cloud environments offer different sets of APIs which adds a significant layer of complexity and prevents DevOps professional from maximizing their potential. Stratoscale delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),Database-as- a-Service (DBaaS).
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    UpCloud

    UpCloud

    UpCloud

    Superior cloud hosting. Give yourself the unfair advantage, and deploy on cloud infrastructure with unrivaled performance & flexibility. Cloud hosting pricing starting at $5/mo. Try UpCloud for free – sign up now for our 3-day free trial with no commitment! Our scalable MaxIOPS block storage provides higher performance at a lower price, and doesn’t throttle your performance based on price. With an N+1 philosophy throughout our entire infrastructure, all single points of failure have been eliminated. We trust our redundancy so much, that we will give you a 100% SLA with 50x payback for any downtime of over 5 minutes. Get going with one of our Simple plans, starting from $5/mo, or build your own with our Flexible plan. 30-days money back guarantee. Try cloud hosting for free now! All cloud servers are deployed with our MaxIOPS technology, allowing you to create and boot up a new cloud server in just 45 seconds!
    Starting Price: $5 per month
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