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Storage

The Storage page lists the volumes you are renting, along with their status, capacity, usage duration, and creation time. Besides creating a volume as part of Pod creation, you can also create volumes here in advance so they are ready to select and mount at deployment time.

Volume statuses:

  • Available: the volume is usable and not mounted by any Pod
  • Attached: the volume is usable and mounted by a Pod
  • Unavailable: the volume is not usable
caution

Billing starts as soon as a volume is enabled, calculated as capacity × usage duration. After creation, a volume can only be expanded, never shrunk.

Create a volume​

  1. Click Create Volume.
  2. Enter a volume name (lowercase letters, digits, and - only; it must start with a letter and end with a letter or digit).
  3. Choose a Storage Cluster from the dropdown.
  4. Enter the capacity to rent. Below the field you can see the unit price and the estimated hourly/monthly cost, which vary by storage cluster and capacity.
  5. After confirming, click Save to start the rental.

View volume details​

Click a volume in the list, or click the menu icon at the end of the row and choose View. The details panel on the right includes:

  • Order Summary: unit price, estimated hourly/monthly cost, actual usage duration, and total cost
  • Storage Cluster
  • Attached To: if a Pod has the volume mounted, the Pod's name is shown

Expand volume capacity​

  1. In the list, click the menu icon next to the volume you want to expand, then click Expand Capacity.
  2. Enter the new size (must be larger than the current capacity); the estimated cost updates immediately.
  3. Click Save to confirm.

Delete a volume​

  1. In the list, click the menu icon next to the volume you want to delete, then click Delete.
  2. Review the information in the confirmation dialog, then click Delete.
caution

A volume mounted to a Pod (status Attached) cannot be deleted; handle the mounting Pod first.

File Browser​

After creating a volume, you can use the File Browser to upload and manage files in the volume directly from your browser, without mounting it to a Pod first.

  1. In the storage list, click the volume you want to open.
  2. In the Access tab on the right, click the Manage Files button; the File Browser opens in a new tab.

Features include: viewing files and folders, creating folders, uploading, downloading, and deleting files; the current usage is shown in the top-right corner.

Common uses:

  • Upload datasets: before deploying a Pod, upload training data and model files to the volume; once the Pod mounts it, the files are directly usable.
  • Retrieve compute results: after a Pod job writes its output to the mount path, download it directly from the File Browser — no Pod connection needed. For a walkthrough, see Example: run a batch job on a Pod and retrieve the results.