Instance Disk Space - NVMe?
Hi,
Just registered. I haven't created an instance yet but before I do
Are the disks using NVMe SSD or just SSD or are they SATA
From the blog post I understand this is true about attached Volumes in certain regions
I was just wondering about the disk space that comes with instance in the specified regions mentioned in the blog post
for example 8 GIG RAM, 4 CPU and 160 GIG at $60 per month dedicated instance.
Is the 160 GIG NVMe SSD?
Thank-you for the clarification
David j.
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If I understand NVMe is the protocol that R/W to the disk.
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On the SSD that comes with the disk what is the R/W protocol.
You're outta my league now.
Why do you care? Your VM probably doesn't care…it's all virtualized.
-- sw
The disc space you get with your plan is always SSD. If you subscribe to block storage, that may be NVMe and it may be SATA. Block storage is way slower than the disc space you get with your plan and you have to pay extra for it.
I haven't exactly figured out how to tell the difference between NVMe & SATA for my block storage volume (for me, this task is not a very high priority).
for example 8 GIG RAM, 4 CPU and 160 GIG at $60 per month dedicated instance.
Is the 160 GIG NVMe SSD?
If the 160Gb comes with your plan, it's SSD.
-- sw
sw,
Thank-you.
If I understand NVMe is the protocol that R/W to the disk.
On the SSD that comes with the disk what is the R/W protocol.
Just trying to figure out the difference btw whats SSD, NVMe and SATA
This link might help you with figuring out if you have SATA or SSD
https://www.golinuxcloud.com/check-disk-type-linux/ - it helped me
Thanks
David j
NVME is only one type of interface used by solid state drives, which generally has more throughput, read/write speeds, than a SATA interface. As far as which particular interface a Linode's hosts are using, you as the end user won't be able to tell. Since your disk is a virtual disk, it will probably use the paravirtualized scsi driver, or some other method for full virtualization. What you'd probably want to be concerned with is I/O performance of your disk, which can be tested with various tools. From my experience, this can vary from one host to another, so you'd simply have to test yours and find out.
Thanks - I'm setting up a linode dedicated CPU with a volume - will come back let you know about volume and disk