Block storage Reliable, high-performance block storage for any GCE VM instance Local SSD Persistent Disk: SSD Persistent Disk: HDD Fastest, Attached, Ephemeral Fast, Persistent, Durable, Remote Cheapest, Persistent, Durable, Remote - High-performance scratch space. - Latency sensitive applications and - Large data processing workloads Frequently accessed data. files. - Latency incentive tasks with lots - Excellent for scientific workloads, - High performance database and of data: Genomics processing, especially when combined with fast enterprise applications video transcoding in GCE Target compute VMs like GPU instances - Databases scenarios - Ephemeral storage - Persistent storage - Persistent storage - Highest-performance ($0.218 GB) - Performance sensitive ($0.17GB) - Cost sensitive ($.04 GB) - IOPS: 680k read / 360k write - IOPS: up to 40k read / 30k write - IOPS: 3k read / 15k write Features Encryption Encryption, Snapshots 3TB - 375 GB per partition, up to 8 64 TB, Disk Size sets performance partitions (Attach larger VMs for max SSD performance)