Spun one up and ran some quick numbers on a 100GB volume:
root@ubuntu-1gb-nyc1-01:~# time dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO_Volume_volume-nyc1-01 of=test.dat bs=1024 count=10000000
10000000+0 records in
10000000+0 records out
10240000000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 58.0655 s, 176 MB/s
real 0m58.248s
user 0m2.608s
sys 0m41.604s
Some quick observations:
* Easy to add one when creating a droplet; by default they let you create volumes with these sizes: 100GB, 250GB, 500GB, 1000GB, 1.95TB; it's also really easy to create your own size.
* You can resize in any increments; took about 4 seconds to go from 100GB to 110GB with no downtime; you obviously need to resize/manage the mounted volume yourself.
* [Edit 1] Deleting the droplet does NOT destroy the volume. Worth keeping in mind when you spin them up/down.
* [Edit 2] Remounting an existing volume to a new droplet was quick and painless.
root@ubuntu-1gb-nyc1-01:~# time dd if=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-0DO_Volume_volume-nyc1-01 of=test.dat bs=1024 count=10000000 10000000+0 records in
10000000+0 records out
10240000000 bytes (10 GB) copied, 58.0655 s, 176 MB/s
real 0m58.248s
user 0m2.608s
sys 0m41.604s
Some quick observations:
* Easy to add one when creating a droplet; by default they let you create volumes with these sizes: 100GB, 250GB, 500GB, 1000GB, 1.95TB; it's also really easy to create your own size.
* You can resize in any increments; took about 4 seconds to go from 100GB to 110GB with no downtime; you obviously need to resize/manage the mounted volume yourself.
* [Edit 1] Deleting the droplet does NOT destroy the volume. Worth keeping in mind when you spin them up/down.
* [Edit 2] Remounting an existing volume to a new droplet was quick and painless.