Render Persistent Disks

Attach and operate persistent disks for Render services.

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---
name: render-disks
description: >-
  Attaches and manages persistent disks on Render services—mount paths, sizing,
  snapshots, file transfers, and single-instance constraints. Use when the user
  needs persistent storage, file uploads, a custom database on disk, CMS media
  storage, or needs to understand why their service can't scale horizontally
  or use zero-downtime deploys.
  Trigger terms: persistent disk, disk, storage, mount path, sizeGB, SSD,
  file uploads, snapshots, disk restore, ephemeral filesystem.
license: MIT
compatibility: Render paid web services, private services, and background workers
metadata:
  author: Render
  version: "1.0.0"
  category: storage
---

# Render Persistent Disks

Persistent disks are high-performance SSDs you attach to a Render service to preserve filesystem changes across deploys and restarts. Without a disk, services have an **ephemeral filesystem**—all local file changes are lost on every deploy.

## When to Use

- Storing **file uploads**, CMS media, or user-generated content… install to load the full skill