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What are the Performance Expectations for Block Storage ?

Updated on 24 September, 2025

Compare Vultr Block Storage classes, NVMe and HDD, with target performance limits and usage considerations.


Vultr Block Storage comes in two classes, HDD and NVME, each of which has different performance levels.

  • NVME Block Storage is high performance class, which targets 7500 IOPS and 300 MiB/sec per attached block volume.
  • HDD Block Storage is the cost-optimized class, which targets 500 IOPS and 100 MiB/sec per attached block volume.
Note
These target levels represent upper performance limits rather than minimum baselines. Since all block storage relies on a redundant network storage architecture that is shared across customers, and performance depends on the complexity of individual workloads and application behaviors, no absolute guarantees can be made about the performance that any particular user will experience.