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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by deadmutex on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @02:11PM (#39445512)
The GCE claim is unverified. OP seems to be referring to PD-SSD and not LocalSSD
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by rwiggins on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @11:47PM (#39450257)
GCE local SSDs absolutely are on the same host as the VM. The docs [0] are pretty clear on this, I think:

> Local SSD disks are physically attached to the server that hosts your VM.

Disclosure: I work on GCE.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd

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