These disks aren't typically meant for database server usage. They're fine for consumers and even stuff like webservers, but the amount of data discord moves around on the daily means that they are bound to make some disks fail pretty quickly.
The normal course of action for this is usually to have a raid array over all your nvme disks, but since google just migrates your VM to a machine that has good disks, doing that is useless.
Really this whole article is "we are going to keep using google cloud despite their storage options being unfit for our purpose and here's how".
The normal course of action for this is usually to have a raid array over all your nvme disks, but since google just migrates your VM to a machine that has good disks, doing that is useless.
Really this whole article is "we are going to keep using google cloud despite their storage options being unfit for our purpose and here's how".