# Accessing /data folder of persistent storage

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**Created:** [July 13, 2023, 10:54am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Faccessing-data-folder-of-persistent-storage%2F46681 "2023-07-13T10:54:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 10:19am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Faccessing-data-folder-of-persistent-storage%2F46681%2F6 "2026-02-13T10:19:45Z")

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For that purpose, [Dataset Storage](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-storage#dataset-storage) seems to be the recommended option nowadays.

Persistent Storage is in a rather unclear state…🤔

> [@Spaces Persistent Storage Upgrade Not Accessible](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fspaces-persistent-storage-upgrade-not-accessible%2F171226%2F11)%3A
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> Hi @Minimartzz There’s a similar discussion [here](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fpersistent-storage-not-visible-in-org-space-after-payment-info-added%2F172396%2F3). Persistent storage isn’t available for new Spaces, but you can use [Dataset Storage](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-storage#dataset-storage) instead.

> [@Urgent: Persistent storage (/data) suddenly unavailable — vote DB lost after restart (channelcorp/KO-TTS-Arena)](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Furgent-persistent-storage-data-suddenly-unavailable-vote-db-lost-after-restart-channelcorp-ko-tts-arena%2F173082)%3A
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> Hi Hugging Face team and community, We’re experiencing a critical production incident on our Space where Persistent Storage (/data) suddenly became unavailable, and as a result our SQLite vote database appears to be lost. This Space is a Korean TTS Arena where users vote and compare models, so the vote history is essentially community-built data accumulated over time. Losing it is extremely serious for us. Space [https://huggingface.co/spaces/channelcorp/KO-TTS-Arena](https://huggingface.co/spaces/channelcorp/KO-TTS-Arena)What changed? As far as …

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