[deadmutex]

The GCE claim is unverified. OP seems to be referring to PD-SSD and not LocalSSD

[rwiggins]

GCE local SSDs absolutely are on the same host as the VM. The docs [0] are pretty clear on this, I think:

> Local SSD disks are physically attached to the server that hosts your VM.

Disclosure: I work on GCE.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd