Explore Storage options & Disk Types in Google Cloud
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Storage in Google Cloud Platform
GCP provides data storage options for your files on the cloud. These files can be your application files, backup files, media, setup & binaries, etc. Google cloud platform Compute Engine provided multiple types of storage options for your instance. Zonal, Regional persistent disk, and Local SSDs are more crucial from instance prospective because there 3 major options for your local instance storage whereas cloud storage bucket is used for affordable storage for backups and other files with unlimited space and filestore as the name implies is file storage for google users.
Storage in Google Cloud Platform
Primary or Major Storage options:-
Zonal persistent disk: Efficient, reliable block storage.
Regional persistent disk: Regional block storage replicated in two zones.
Local SSD: High performance, transient, local block storage.
Cloud Storage buckets: Affordable object storage.
Filestore: High-performance file storage for Google Cloud users.
Storage in Google Cloud Platform
Sub Storage Options or Disk Types:- These are valid for Zonal, Regional persistent disk, and Local SSDs only. Zonal & Regional persistent disks are available with 3 different disk types. Based on disk type, cost, and performance.
Standard persistent disks (pd-standard) are backed by standard hard disk drives (HDD). Low-performance Low Cost.
Balanced persistent disks (pd-balanced) are backed by solid-state drives (SSD). They are an alternative to SSD persistent disks that balance performance and cost. Balanced cost & performance.
SSD persistent disks (pd-ssd) are backed by solid-state drives (SSD). High Cost and High Performance.