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Overview

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Crusoe Cloud provides a high-performance, scalable block storage product.

Disk Types

Crusoe Cloud offers two types of disks: ephemeral disks and persistent disks. Ephemeral disks are local to the virtual machine (on the same physical server), while persistent disks are stored in a shared cluster.

Ephemeral Disks​

Ephemeral disks offer the highest performance with no additional redundancy. Ephemeral disks have a lifecycle that is tied to the server associated with a given virtual machine. If the physical server reboots, or the VM is stopped and restarted, the disks are erased.

Note: if a VM is restarted from within the VM (e.g. using sudo reboot now) rather than by stopping and restarting the VM from the UI, CLI, or API, the disks will not be erased.

Persistent Disks​

Persistent disks offer reasonable performance with high availability and durability. Persistent disks have a lifecycle independent of any given virtual machine, and can be attached or detached while the VM is running or stopped. Persistent disks can be attached to a given VM then detached at a later date, therefore storing data while a VM is stopped.

You can create individual persistent disks ranging in size from 1 GiB to 10 TiB and you can attach up to 16 disks per instance. Disks are persistent NVMe, which will preserve data even after detaching the disk from the instance.

OS Disks​

VM operating systems are stored on a 128 GiB persistent disk attached to a VM.

Limitations

  1. Persistent disks can only be attached to a single instance at a time in read-write mode, but can be attached to multiple VMs in read-only mode. Multi-attach must be configured in the CLI or Terraform, as the Console UI only defaults to read-write attach.
  2. Persistent disks can only be resized to be larger than the current size.
  3. OS disks disks cannot currently be resized.

Quotas

By default, each organization can create up to 128 persistent disks, with a total capacity across all disks of 128 TiB. If you need to increase these quotas, please contact support.

Billing

Ephemeral disks are included in the VM pricing, and thus don't incur additional cost.

Persistent disks are billed at $0.08/GiB/month. Persistent disks, including OS disks are billed regardless of whether or not they are attached to a running VM.