Storage

Pods are disposable; volumes are not. A persistent volume keeps your data across pod stops, restarts, and re-creations. Meshive has two kinds:

	Local volume	Network volume
Lives on	The pod’s own host machine (fast, direct disk)	A dedicated storage node (NFS)
Created	Together with a pod, in the create flow	Standalone, from Resources › Storage
Tied to	That one machine — the pod must stay there	Any pod in the workspace can mount it
Pod types	Demand pods only	Demand and spot
Encryption	Opt-in at creation (details)	Opt-in at creation (details)

Sizes start at 10 GB per volume, up to what the host has free. Rates are per GB·month — see Pricing & Instances.

Note

Storage is billed while the data exists, including when the pod is stopped — the bytes still occupy a physical disk. Delete volumes you no longer need.

Connect — access without a pod

A network volume doesn’t need a running pod to be reachable. Connect on the volume card opens a temporary access channel (SSH/SFTP credentials shown in the modal) so you can upload or pull data directly. Preparing the channel usually takes about a minute.

For encrypted volumes, Connect is also what unlocks the volume — and an idle countdown locks it again automatically.

Choosing between the two

• Local — training scratch space, model weights next to the GPU, anything latency-sensitive. Remember it pins the pod to that machine: to move GPUs, copy the data out first (why).
• Network — datasets shared across pods, data that must outlive any single machine, spot workloads (local volumes aren’t offered on spot — they’d be lost on reclaim).