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Google Compute Engine Persistent Disk Types
Google Compute Engine offers 9 disk types for your instances. Each of the following disk types has unique price and performance characteristics.
| Disk Type | Region | Costs (Avg. Region) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Description | Min. Disk Size | # | 1 GB | 10 GB | 500 GB |
| hyperdisk-balanced | Hyperdisk Balanced Persistent Disk | 10 GB | 36 | ??? | ??? | ??? |
| hyperdisk-extreme | Hyperdisk Extreme Persistent Disk | 10 GB | 32 | 0.15 | 1.50 | 75.00 |
| hyperdisk-ml | Hyperdisk ML Persistent Disk | 10 GB | 19 | ??? | ??? | ??? |
| hyperdisk-throughput | Hyperdisk Throughput Persistent Disk | 10 GB | 42 | ??? | ??? | ??? |
| local-ssd | Local SSD | 375 GB | 42 | 0.09 | 0.90 | 45.00 |
| pd-balanced | Balanced Persistent Disk | 10 GB | 42 | 0.12 | 1.20 | 60.00 |
| pd-extreme | Extreme Persistent Disk | 500 GB | 42 | 0.15 | 1.50 | 75.00 |
| pd-ssd | SSD Persistent Disk | 10 GB | 42 | 0.2 | 2.00 | 100.00 |
| pd-standard | Standard Persistent Disk | 10 GB | 42 | 0.05 | 0.50 | 25.00 |
Performance by Disk Size
Persistent disk performance scales with the size of the disk and with the number of vCPUs on your Google Compute Engine VM instance. The Google documentation explains the whole concept very detailed. The following graphic is only meant to give a quick overview.