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File Storage NAS:Purchase resource plans

Last Updated:Jun 03, 2026

NAS resource plans help reduce usage costs. Choose a plan based on plan types, capacity, offset factors, and your estimated or historical usage.

Prerequisites

Purchase guide

Consider the required services, workload size, and region when choosing a plan.Purchase guide

Example

Scenario

The following table lists estimated monthly resource usage for a user's NAS file systems.

Region

Storage class

Resource usage

China (Hangzhou)

Performance NAS file system

  • Storage usage: 60 GiB

  • Infrequent Access (IA) storage usage: 380 GiB

  • IA data read traffic: 1 GiB

  • IA data write traffic: 2 GiB

China (Shanghai)

Standard Extreme NAS file system

Provisioned capacity: 200 GiB

Advanced Extreme NAS file system

Provisioned capacity: 300 GiB

Analysis and recommendations

The following table recommends resource plans for this scenario. Use the calculator to plan your base capacity.

Storage class

Billable item

Resource usage

Recommended plan

Performance NAS file system

Storage usage of General-purpose NAS (Capacity/Performance)

60 GiB

Total required capacity: (60 GiB × 5.47) + (380 GiB × 0.37) = 468.8 GiB

  • Resource plan type: General-purpose NAS Resource Plan

  • Region: China (Hangzhou)

  • General-purpose base capacity: 500 GiB

IA storage capacity

380 GiB

IA data read traffic

1 GiB

NAS resource plans offset storage fees but not read/write data transfer fees. Resource plans.

IA data write traffic

2 GiB

Standard Extreme NAS file system

Extreme provisioned capacity

200 GiB

Total provisioned capacity: 200 GiB + 300 GiB = 500 GiB

  • Resource plan type: Extreme NAS Resource Plan

  • Region: China (Shanghai)

  • Extreme base capacity: 500 GiB

Advanced Extreme NAS file system

Extreme provisioned capacity

300 GiB

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