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</ref>. The storage is organized as blocks with unique identifiers by which they may be stored and retrieved as individual hard drives, and operating systems can connect to. It is an efficient and reliable way to store, use and manage data. The block storage can almost be used for any kinds of application, including but not limited to database storage and virtualization platform storage.

Storage blocks are generally accessed by [[iSCSI]], [[Fibre Channel]] or [[Fibre Channel over Ethernet]] (FCoE) protocols. Block storage provides high performance for mission-critical applications and can provide high I/O performance and low latency. it is commonly used in [[Storage_area_network|Storage Area Network]] environments in place of [https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/file-storage file storage].

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