docs/doc/source/planning/kubernetes/hard-drive-options.rst
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Hard Drive Options
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For hard drive storage, |prod| supports high-performance |SSD| and |NVMe|
drives as well as rotational disks.
To increase system performance, you can use a |SSD| or a |NVMe| drive on |prod|
hosts in place of any rotational drive. |SSD| provides faster read-write access
than mechanical drives. |NVMe| supports the full performance potential of |SSD|
by providing a faster communications bus compared to the |SATA| or |SAS|
technology used with standard |SSDs|.
On storage hosts, |SSD| or |NVMe| drives are required for journals or Ceph
caching.
.. xrefbook For more information about these features, see |stor-doc|: :ref:`Storage on Storage Hosts <storage-hosts-storage-on-storage-hosts>`.
For |NVMe| drives, a host with an |NVMe|-ready BIOS and |NVMe| connectors or
adapters is required.
To use an |NVMe| drive as a root drive, you must enable |UEFI| support in the
host BIOS. In addition, when installing the host, you must perform extra steps
to assign the drive as the boot device.