Disks

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Updated at January 27, 2025

Disks are virtual counterparts of physical storage devices, such as SSDs and HDDs.

Disks are designed to store data and are attached to desktops as network block devices. In case you stop a desktop, its data will be still there.

Cloud Desktop supports network SSDs and HDDs.

Each desktop has a boot disk and a working disk attached.

You specify disk configuration when creating a desktop group.

For more information about disks, see the Compute Cloud documentation.

Boot disk

A boot disk contains OS files and desktop software components.

You cannot edit the boot disk configuration after creating a desktop group.

Updating an image, working disk size, vCPU, vCPU and RAM share will delete all data on the boot disk.

A working disk contains user files. On Linux desktops, this disk is mounted to the user directory.

You can increase the size of the working disk after creating a desktop group.

In case you update the desktop group image, the data on the working disk will be still there.