Hardware
Local SSD
Quick answer
A local SSD is storage physically attached to the host machine, as opposed to network-attached block storage.
A local SSD is storage physically attached to the host machine, as opposed to network-attached block storage.
Why it matters
File-heavy CI steps — npm install, cargo unpacking crates, Docker extracting layers — are bound by disk latency rather than CPU. Local NVMe is often the single biggest available speedup.
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