TIERED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE & DATA LAKE OPS

Hybrid Storage & Data Lake Hub

A four-tier storage model (Tier 0 through Tier 3) that combines the raw speed of local NVMe with the elastic capacity of a hybrid Multi-Cloud Storage Hub, unified through the OpenList Gateway.

Total Pool Capacity24.5 TB Tiered
Data Protection Policy3-2-1 Zero Loss

Multi-Tier Storage Architecture

Optimized for I/O and cost
Tier 0

Lightning NVMe Cache

3,500 MB/s Read / 3,000 MB/s Write

Proxmox Host Root, LXC Boot Volumes, PostgreSQL & DuckDB Temporary Cache

Hardware:Samsung 980 PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 NVMe
Access latency:< 0.05 ms
Used / Capacity:360 GB (36%) / 1.0 TB
Expansion: Hot-Swap Ready I/O Optimized
Tier 1

Hot Application SSD Array

560 MB/s Read / 510 MB/s Write

Docker Volumes, Immich Photo Originals, OpenProject Database, Trilium Notes DB

Hardware:Crucial MX500 Enterprise-Grade 3D NAND SATA SSD
Access latency:< 0.2 ms
Used / Capacity:780 GB (39%) / 2.0 TB
Expansion: Hot-Swap Ready I/O Optimized
Tier 2

Resilient Hybrid Storage Pool

115 MB/s Gigabit Wire-Speed

Long-term cold archives, ISO libraries, raw camera RAW dumps, Jellyfin 4K Library

Hardware:Samba NAS Appliance & Btrfs / ZFS Resilient Array
Access latency:< 4.0 ms
Used / Capacity:6.2 TB (39%) / 16.0 TB Pool
Expansion: Hot-Swap Ready I/O Optimized
Tier 3

Multi-Cloud Unified Storage Hub

100 - 1000 Mbps Cloud Ingress

Offsite encrypted backup mirrors, team asset distribution, cross-cloud sync

Hardware:OpenList Gateway (OneDrive, GDrive, Proton, MEGA, Koofr)
Access latency:25 - 60 ms
Used / Capacity:2.8 TB (51%) / 5.5 TB Aggregated
Expansion: Hot-Swap Ready I/O Optimized

OpenList Unified Cloud Storage Gateway

Consolidates public cloud storage providers into a single WebDAV/S3 mount point on the MaxStack Aegis server (`/vpsnas`).

Cloud ProviderMount PointQuotaUsedLatencyStatus
Microsoft OneDrive Enterprise•••••••••••• (Masked)1,024 GB (1 TB)420 GB18 msSYNCED
Google Drive Workspace•••••••••••• (Masked)2,048 GB (2 TB)1,150 GB22 msSYNCED
Proton Drive Encrypted Vault•••••••••••• (Masked)500 GB180 GB45 msENCRYPTED
MEGA Privacy Storage•••••••••••• (Masked)50 GB28 GB52 msACTIVE
Koofr Cloud Storage•••••••••••• (Masked)100 GB42 GB35 msACTIVE

Data Growth & Capacity Runway Simulator

Drag the slider below to estimate how long the Homelab's remaining free capacity will last at a given monthly ingest rate (camera RAW files, Immich photos, database backups, Parquet data lake):

New data ingest rate:120 GB / month
20 GB/month (Light)250 GB/month (Typical)500 GB/month (Heavy)
Capacity runway:6.9 years (83 months)Until the 80% utilization threshold
Available free space:9.8 TB FreeOn the 16 TB Atlas Vault pool
Expansion recommendation:Capacity is sufficientAutomated 3-2-1 backup strategy