Hi,
First of all, thanks for all the hard work that’s gone into this product!
My question is around the recently updated hardware recommendation section of your docs: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/recommended-production-settings.html#gce
For GCP, you mention using Local SSDs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#localssds
That last link has a pretty anxiety-inducing section:
Warning: The performance gains from Local SSDs require certain trade-offs in availability, durability, and flexibility. Because of these trade-offs, local SSD storage is not automatically replicated and all data on the local SSD may be lost if the instance terminates for any reason
If local SSDs pose such a durability risk, what is the motivation for recommending them? Is that idea that if an entire host or two go down, Cockroach’s replication should maintain availability? I guess my question really is, are the risks of using local SSDs thoroughly mitigated enough by Cockroach’s focus on availability to be trusted in a production environment?