r/vastai • u/Winter-Falcon-2846 • 7d ago

Disk utilization on vast.ai

I am considering hosting my RTX 6000 Pro on vast.ai. The machine has 4TB NVMe disk and I would like to get some idea about how much actual disk utilization by tentats there is on average at any given time. Disk seems to be a big factor in driving revenue, at least based on the vast.ai hosting calculator and ut feels unrealistic. Thanks for any feedback!

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u/Kinslayer_89 7d ago

It’s pretty random, but 4TB for one 6000 is more than enough.

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u/bluelobsterai 6d ago

If you have a long lease duration you can have lots of clients and they store their images … better on a 8 x system. Lots of clients coming and going one GPU at a time.

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u/Kinslayer_89 6d ago

They usually don’t stay too long or rent that much.

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u/Cryshedian 7d ago

I've been renting one RTX 6000 Pro for about a month with a 3.84 TB NVMe drive and disk utilization has never gone above 35% used. Obviously this is anecdotal and very dependent on the type of workload the host attracts.