Machines are high-performing computing for scaling AI applications.
Volumes provide a block-level storage device for use as the primary system drive on a Paperspace machine. Volumes appear to the operating system as locally attached storage which can be partitioned and formatted according to your needs. Volumes offer cost-effective storage that is ideal for a broad range of workloads. They are well suited to both applications that rely on random reads and writes, and to throughput-intensive applications that perform long, continuous reads and writes. These volumes deliver single-digit millisecond latencies and the ability to burst to 3,000 IOPS for extended periods of time. The throughput limit for volumes is 128 MiB/s.
Increasing storage expands your filesystem and is not reversible.
Shared Drives are designed to provide a data source accessible to multiple machines concurrently. Drives are most commonly used to share files between machines and behave similarly to a local office file server (commonly referred to as network-attached storage or NAS). Drives are mounted using standard tools within the OS. Drives provide a file system interface and file system access control such as strong consistency and file locking. All file systems deliver a consistent baseline performance of 50 MB/s per TB of storage, all file systems (regardless of size) can burst to 100 MB/s.
Large sizes up to 16TB are available upon request.
See Mount Shared Drives for instructions on how to make this storage available for your team.