OCI Storage

Storage services

	Local NVMe	Block Volume	File Storage	Object Storage	Archive Storage
Type	NVMe SSD based temporary storage	NVMe SSD based Block Storage	NFSv3 compatible File System	Highly durable Object storage	Long-term archival and backup
Durability	Non-persistent; survives reboots	Durable (multiple copies in an AD)	Durable (multiple copies in n AD)	Highly Durable (multiple copies across ADs)	Highly Durable (multiple copies across ADs)
Capacity	Terabytes+	Petabytes+	Exabytes+	Petabytes+	Petabytes+
Unit Size	51.2 TB for BM; 6.4-25.6 TB for VM	50 GB - 32 TB/volume; 32 volumes/instance	Up to 8 Exabytes	10 TB/object	10 TB/object
Use cases	Big Data, OLTP, High Performance workloads	Apps that required SAN like features	Apps that require shared file systems	Unstructured data (logs, images, videos, other)	Long term archival and backups