What to pay attention to Aliyun disk new purchase

　　 New purchase of cloud server

When the new purchase, Support SSD cloud disk, high efficiency cloud disk, ordinary cloud disk, local SSD disk.

For a public mirrored system disk, the mirrored size is GB and is charged for both Linux and Windows systems.

If you need to buy a data disk, the process looks like this.

Buying disks with an ECS instance

Login to ECS monthly purchase page.

Select the category and size of the data disk in the store.

Depending on the region, the CPU memory specification can choose a different type of system disk.

Common Cloud Disk: can choose up to 4 data disk, each maximum GB, single instance Max 8000 GB.

Efficient cloud Disk: up to 4 data disks can be selected, each maximum of TB, single instance maximum 128 TB.

SSD Cloud Disk: Up to 4 pieces of data disk, maximum of TB per block, single instance Max 128 TB.

Local SSD Disk: up to 4 data disks can be selected, maximum GB per block, single instance max 1024 GB. The local SSD disk does not support unloading, and the instance of the local SSD cloud disk cannot be changed with CPU and memory, which is suitable for the long term package year.

　　Buy Cloud Disk

The cloud disk can be purchased separately, paid on demand, and exists independently. Data reliability up to 99.9999999%. The cloud disk can be mounted and unloaded freely between different ECS instances within the same usable area.

Ordinary cloud disk per block maximum support GB

High efficiency cloud disk with maximum support of terabytes per block

SSD Cloud Disk maximum TB per block

Scenarios for using data disks by volume

Buy the method: Buy the cloud disk separately, login cloud disk purchase page.

　Disk expansion

There are two ways of doing this:

Method One: The cloud disk supports the disk in-situ expansion, no need to format the disk, the expansion of the ECS console and the ECS OPEN API to restart the instance, if the disk to be mounted for expansion, the disk mount to an ECS instance can be effective without restarting the instance.

To enlarge the system disk, please refer to the replacement system disk.

To enlarge the data disk for a Windows instance, refer to the Expansion data disk (Windows instance).

To enlarge the Linux instance's data disk, refer to the expansion data disk (Linux instance).

Method Two: Login to buy Cloud disk page, buy more cloud disk. Cloud Disk is a volume of paid products, you can choose ordinary cloud disk, efficient cloud disk, SSD cloud disk. The cloud disk supports the free mounting and unloading of different ECS instances within the same usable area to achieve the purpose of increasing the data disk for an instance.