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In our "POD Equipment Ownership" offering, one or more groups buy the initial POD servers then pay a monthly maintenance feemaintenance fee, which is currently $510$609/month for a full POD as of January 15, 2023 (the rate before then was $510/month). PODs can be shared among participants, in which case they share in both initial equipment and monthly maintenance costs (e.g. $255/mo for a 2-PI POD). We can assist in finding a suitable partner if you select this option.
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In this "Rental POD" offering, participants have no initial equipment buy-in but instead pay a larger per-TB/month maintenance fee are shown below, as of January 15, 2023. Note that allocations can be increased at any time, and all we need from you to get started is an account number for monthly billing.
| Rental % | Rental fraction | Monthly fee | Storage (TB) |
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| 100% | 1 | $1325 | 256 |
| 50% | 1/2 | $662 | 128 |
| 25% | 1/4 | $331 | 64 |
| 20% | 1/5 | $265 | 51 |
| 15% | 1/6.5 | $199 | 38 |
| 12.5% | 1/8 | $166 | 32 |
| 10% | 1/10 | $132 | 26 |
| 5% | 1/20 | $66 | 13 |
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As described in Available BRCF PODs, the Rental pod consists of two Dell PowerEdge R640 servers, both with dual 18-core/36-hyperthread CPUs (for a total of 26 cores/72 hyperthreads each). RentComp01 has 768 GB of RAM and a 900 GB local SSD for fast local I/O, while RentComp02 has 256 GB RAM and a 450 GB local SSD.
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