# What are the alternatives to Hetzner Storage Box and SX storage servers?

> Alternatives to Hetzner Storage Box and SX storage servers: protocols, capacity, price per TB, ID checks and crypto, read 2 November 2026. No KYC option.

- URL: https://basalthold.com/hetzner-storage-box-alternative/
- Last updated: 2026-11-02
- Publisher: Basalthold (https://basalthold.com)

What Hetzner's storage products do well, where they stop, and which services replace them protocol by protocol, with price, payment and ID columns.

**Quick answer — What are the alternatives to Hetzner Storage Box and SX storage servers?**

The main alternatives to Hetzner Storage Box and SX storage servers are Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Storj, BuyVM slabs, OVHcloud and crypto-paid storage servers. Up to 20 TB, a Storage Box stays cheaper per TB: $2.27 to $3.58 on 2 November 2026. **Basalthold** rents 24 to 160 TB from $110.99 per 30 days, crypto only, no KYC.

## What do Hetzner's storage products cost?

*Hetzner's Storage Box page and price feeds, read on 2 November 2026. SX prices are the base configuration. Auction prices fall over time. 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 2026-10-30).*

| Product | What it is | Capacity | Per month, before VAT | One-off setup |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Storage Box BX11 | Network storage | 1 TB | €3.20 | — |
| Storage Box BX21 | Network storage | 5 TB | €10.90 | — |
| Storage Box BX31 | Network storage | 10 TB | €20.80 | — |
| Storage Box BX41 | Network storage | 20 TB | €40.60 | — |
| SX65 | Server: Ryzen 7 3700X, 64 GB | 4 × 16 TB (64 TB raw) | €274.00 | €134 |
| SX135 | Server: Ryzen 9 3900, 128 GB | 8 × 16 TB (128 TB raw) | €449.00 | €224 |
| SX295 | Server: EPYC 7502P, 256 GB | 14 × 22 TB (308 TB raw) | €879.00 | €439 |
| Server Auction (example) | Server: Xeon W-2145, 128 GB | 10 × 16 TB (160 TB raw) | €247.00 + €1.70 for IPv4 | None |

*Prices checked on November 2, 2026.*

## Why look for an alternative to a Storage Box?

**A Storage Box is one of the cheapest terabytes you can rent, at $2.27 to $3.58. People leave it for its limits, not its price.** Its strengths are real: FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, Samba, rsync over SSH, BorgBackup, restic, rclone, HTTPS and WebDAV. It keeps 10 to 40 snapshots, takes 100 sub-accounts, and has no minimum term.

The limits:

- **20 TB per box.** Beyond that you juggle several boxes.
- **10 connections at once.** Many parallel backup jobs queue.
- **Not a server.** You cannot run your own daemon on it, such as Proxmox Backup Server or an S3 gateway.
- **Two countries:** Germany or Finland.
- **Payment and identity:** our survey found no crypto option at Hetzner. Its fraud-prevention FAQ asks some accounts for an ID document or a card prepayment.

The SX line removes the size limit but adds a setup fee of half a month, and the same payment rules.

## Which alternatives exist, and what do they cost?

*Official pages and order pages read on 2 November 2026. Euro prices before VAT where stated. 1 EUR = 1.1172 USD (ECB, 2026-10-30).*

| Option | Type | Capacity | Price per month | Crypto | ID at signup |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hetzner Storage Box | Network storage | 1 to 20 TB per box | $2.27 to $3.58 per TB | No | May be asked |
| Hetzner SX line | Storage server | 64 to 308 TB raw | €274.00 to €879.00 + setup | No | May be asked |
| Hetzner Server Auction | Storage server | Varies daily | From $1.72 per raw TB | No | May be asked |
| Backblaze B2 | S3 object storage | Pay per TB stored | $6.95 per TB | No | Not checked |
| Wasabi | S3 object storage | 1 TB minimum charge | $7.99 per TB | No | Not checked |
| Storj | S3 object storage | Pay per TB stored | $7 per TB + $7 per TB downloaded | USDC only | Not checked |
| BuyVM Block Storage Slab | Disk for a BuyVM VPS | Up to 10 TB | $5.00 per TB | Yes | Not checked |
| OVHcloud RISE-STOR | Storage server | 4 × 14 TB (56 TB raw) | €164.99 + €164.99 setup | No | Manual order check |
| OffshoreDedi | Storage server | 20 to 160 TB raw | From €170.00 ($189.92) | Yes | In some cases |
| Basalthold | Storage server | 24 to 160 TB raw | $110.99 to $561.39 | Yes | Never |

*Prices checked on November 2, 2026.*

## Which alternative speaks the same protocols as a Storage Box?

**Only a machine you control does: object storage speaks S3, not SFTP or Borg.** On a hold, each Storage Box protocol is a package you install, or one already in the system:

| Storage Box access | On a Basalthold hold | On B2, Wasabi or Storj |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SFTP and SCP | OpenSSH, ready at delivery | No |
| rsync over SSH | Yes | No |
| BorgBackup | Borg on the server, reached over SSH | No |
| restic | SFTP, or restic's REST server | Yes, as an S3 bucket |
| rclone | SFTP or your own S3 endpoint | Yes, as an S3 bucket |
| Samba / SMB | Samba, best reached over a VPN | No |
| Snapshots | ZFS snapshots that you schedule | Provider features differ |
| Proxmox Backup Server | A ready image: Proxmox Backup Server 4 | No |

Which backup tool to put on the other end is compared in [Restic or Borg: which is better for offsite backups to your own server?](https://basalthold.com/restic-vs-borg/ "Restic and Borg on a rented server") For Proxmox users, the datastore set-up is in [How do I set up an offsite Proxmox Backup Server?](https://basalthold.com/proxmox-backup-server-offsite/ "Proxmox Backup Server as an offsite target")

## Where is a Basalthold hold better, and where is it not?

**A hold is better past 20 TB, when you need your own software, or when you pay in crypto.** It is worse for a few terabytes: Hold 24 costs $110.99, while a 5 TB Storage Box costs €10.90.

- **Capacity:** one machine of up to 160 TB raw, instead of 20 TB boxes.
- **Software:** Proxmox Backup Server, restic's REST server, an S3 gateway, Nextcloud. Pick Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux, Proxmox VE, or Proxmox Backup Server for a ready backup target. Windows is not offered.
- **Snapshots against ransomware:** ZFS snapshots plus append-only access, laid out in [How do I make backups immutable on my own server?](https://basalthold.com/immutable-backups/ "Append-only and snapshot backups on your own server")
- **Identity:** No KYC: no ID, no selfie, no documents, no card and no phone number, at any point.
- **Cities:** Amsterdam (Netherlands), Bucharest (Romania) and Chisinau (Moldova): every hold in every city, at the same price.

Where Hetzner stays ahead: price per TB, snapshots managed for you, no minimum term, and the SX295's 308 TB. Of 23 storage-server sellers Basalthold checked on 2 November 2026, 6 sell in Germany and 4 in Finland, Hetzner's two countries. Every hold is on the [pricing page](https://basalthold.com/pricing/ "Hold prices per 30 days and per term").

## How do I move from a Storage Box to a hold?

1. **Rent the hold** — Pick a hold, a term and a city, and choose Debian or Proxmox Backup Server as the system. A person on the team prepares the machine after your payment is confirmed, within 72 hours, so it is not instant; the dashboard shows its progress until the IP address appears.
2. **Build the pool** — The operating system sits on its own SSD (two mirrored SSDs on the larger holds); the data drives arrive blank and unpartitioned, so you can build ZFS, an mdadm array or a set of independent disks. If you want the team to prepare a RAID 6 or RAID 10 array before delivery, say so to support before the server is handed over. On ten drives, RAIDZ2 keeps 80% of the raw space.
3. **Create one user per client** — Give each backup client its own account and SSH key, like the sub-accounts of a Storage Box.
4. **Copy the data across** — Run rsync or rclone from the Storage Box to the hold over SFTP. Large copies take days: 20 TB needs about 44 hours if the link holds 1 Gbit/s throughout.
5. **Point the jobs to the new target** — Change the host in each backup job, run one backup, then test a restore before you cancel the box.

## What else do people ask about Storage Box alternatives?

### Is there anything cheaper than a Hetzner Storage Box?

Per raw TB, yes: a Hetzner auction server at $1.72 and NetDynamics24 at $1.30, on 2 November 2026. Neither showed a crypto option, and raw space shrinks under RAID. Storage Boxes cost $2.27 to $3.58, B2 $6.95 and Wasabi $7.99.

### Can I pay Hetzner with crypto?

Our survey of 2 November 2026 found no crypto option at Hetzner. Basalthold takes BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, with no KYC.

### Can I use Borg with a Basalthold hold like with a Storage Box?

Yes. Install Borg on the hold, then point your client at it over SSH. You also get root, so you choose the Borg version and the disk layout.

### What is the Hetzner SX65?

A storage server with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, 64 GB and 4 × 16 TB drives. It cost €274.00 a month plus €134 setup, before VAT, on 2 November 2026.

### Does a hold include snapshots?

Not as a service. You schedule ZFS snapshots yourself. A storage server is not a backup of itself: we keep no copy of your data anywhere else, so a second copy in another place stays your job.

## Sources

1. [Storage Box](https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02)
2. [Server finder price feed (SX line)](https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02)
3. [Server Auction feed](https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_sb.json) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-11-02)
4. [Fraud prevention FAQ (account verification)](https://docs.hetzner.com/general/security-and-identify/fraud-prevention-faq/) — Hetzner Online (read 2026-10-30)
5. [Eco public catalogue (IE)](https://eu.api.ovh.com/v1/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=IE) — OVHcloud (read 2026-11-02)
6. [Storage servers](https://my.offshorededi.com/store/storage-server) — OffshoreDedi (read 2026-11-02)
7. [B2 Cloud Storage pricing](https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing) — Backblaze (read 2026-11-02)
8. [Cloud storage pricing](https://wasabi.com/pricing) — Wasabi Technologies (read 2026-11-02)
9. [Storj pricing](https://www.storj.io/pricing) — Storj (read 2026-11-02)
10. [Block Storage Slabs](https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/) — BuyVM (read 2026-11-02)
11. [Euro foreign exchange reference rates](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml) — European Central Bank (2026-10-30)

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