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Local NVMe scratch disks

Every runner gets a local NVMe scratch disk instead of network-attached storage — the difference shows up in every checkout, install and test run.

Specifications

Type
Local NVMe, direct attached
Size
150 GB – 2 TB by runner size
Sequential read
~6 GB/s
Lifetime
Wiped after every job

Runner labels

  • runnerhut-8vcpu-ubuntu-2404

A surprising share of CI time is disk-bound rather than CPU-bound: npm writing 40,000 small files, Cargo unpacking crates, Docker extracting layers, Xcode writing DerivedData. Network-attached storage makes all of that slower in a way that never shows up in a CPU graph.

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