A data-analytics team runs nightly ETL jobs on an on-premises Linux server. Each run generates about 800 GB of intermediate tables that exist only for a few hours and are deleted when the workflow completes. Writing this scratch data to a network file share is saturating the 10 GbE link and doubling the job's runtime. To improve throughput and eliminate network latency-while accepting that the data is non-persistent and will be lost if the server fails-which storage type should the team choose for the staging workspace?
Local storage directly attached to the ETL server (for example, internal NVMe SSDs)
Shared file storage mounted over NFS so multiple hosts can access the workspace
Object storage in a regional cloud bucket accessed via HTTPS calls
Remote block storage volumes replicated across a storage-area network
Local (direct-attached) storage keeps the disks physically connected to the compute node, so read/write operations travel across the server's internal bus instead of the network. The result is very low latency and high IOPS-ideal for transient, high-volume scratch data. Object storage and shared file storage still incur network overhead, and remote block volumes on a SAN add cost and latency that are unnecessary for short-lived data.
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