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		AlgorithmicTime on Feb 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud > SSDs in the cloud are attached over a network, and fundamentally have to be. No they don't. I work for a cloud provider and I can guarantee that your SSD is local to your VM.

jsolson on Feb 21, 2024 [–]

This is also true for GCE Local SSD: https://cloud.google.com/local-ssd

The GP is incorrect.

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