Block Storage
block storage
Network-attached block volumes presented to an instance as a disk.
Characteristics
Qualitative classes + pricing model — no invented $/GB or IOPS- Type
- block
- Durability
- high
- Latency class
- low
- Throughput class
- high
- Egress billed
- No
- Pricing model
- per GB-month of provisioned capacity, sometimes plus provisioned IOPS
Typical use
Curated · Low-latency working storage for an instance - datasets being actively read, scratch space, databases.
Data class
Curated · Curated reference. Durability, latency and throughput are classes, and pricing is shown as a billing model — GPUVerse does not source or invent concrete $/GB, IOPS or GB/s figures.