# Making use of added storage volumes

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [2016年十月4日 08:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-use-of-added-storage-volumes/51060 "2016-10-04T08:48:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [2016年十月4日 16:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-use-of-added-storage-volumes/51060/4 "2016-10-04T16:22:04Z")

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> [@ljpp](#):
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> we would be talking about base system and database

At least on Digital Ocean that would be a 3x performance penalty

> [@Need a how-to guide for using DigitalOcean Block Storage for image uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-a-how-to-guide-for-using-digialocean-block-storage-for-image-uploads/49535/10):
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> The man makes a point. It appears to be less than 1/3 the speed on the simplest of benchmarks. (I checked and both the host and the storage are at SFO2.) root#:dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output conv=fdatasync bs=384k count=1k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 402653184 bytes (403 MB, 384 MiB) copied, 0.590498 s, 682 MB/s root#:dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/volume-sfo2-01/test conv=fdatasync bs=384k count=1k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 402653184 bytes (403 MB, 384 MiB) copied, 1.99937 s, 201…

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