Equinix Bare Metal new generation - IOPS

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Where the other Cloud providers offer Block Storage as primary storage solution Packet offers Block and local storage of different types:

  • NVMe-SSD
  • SSD
  • Magnetic

As m5.metal doesn't have a local disk, we used a General Purpose SSD from AWS

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