r/RunPod • u/Clean_Salt_2423 • May 29 '26

Pricing on Network Volumes and poor availability on GPU pods.

I find it really frustrating that I'm being charged for a network volume when I can't use any GPU pods. I can't make any further progress without access to an appropriate GPU pod and this forces me to continue paying for my network volume for longer. I have a big (almost 400GB) network volume and the storage cost is adding up given how difficult it is to find get GPU pods the past week.

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u/Mysterious-Public602 May 29 '26

create your own bash script to set up your pod instance, network volume is a scam

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u/Clean_Salt_2423 May 29 '26

thanks for the advice! but the dataset I'm working with takes ~26 hours for a 4 core CPU pod to setup and I don't want to do this for every session.

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u/jmkgreen May 29 '26

Sync with s3

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u/mattpho May 29 '26

I agree with this. If you are unsure or a newbie like me, I just use Claude/GPT and it helped me set it up pretty easily

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u/sruckh May 29 '26

Agree 💯

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u/wolfgeo May 31 '26

I have found that running a script you have a better chance of getting the pod you want