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| Sr. no | Parameter | Block Volume | Local NVMe | File Storage |
| 1 | Type | NVMe SSD based block storage | NVMe SSD based temporary storage | NFSv3 compatible file storage |
| 2 | Access | Block | Block | File |
| 3 | Structure | Block level structure | Block level structure | Hierarchical |
| 4 | Durability | Durable(multiple copies in an AD) | Non-persistent survives reboots | Durable(multiple copies in an AD) |
| 5 | Capacity | Petabytes + | Terabyte + | Exabyte + |
| 6 | Unit Size | 50 GB to 32 TB/vol 32 vols/instance | 51.2 TB, 6.4 – 25.6 TB for VM | Upto 8 Exabyte |
| 7 | Use cases | Databases, VMFS, NTFS, boot and data disks for instances | OLTP, NoSQL, Data Warehousing | Oracle apps (EBS), HPC, General purpose file system |
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