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Azure Premium File storage vs Azure Managed disk

Hi There,

Could you please help me to understand the pricing difference between Azure Premium File share And Azure Premium SSD..For production environment I need 10TB of Space so which will be better and what is the cost difference..and also do i need to go for the snapshot as well. I have tried with Pricing calculator but its bit confusing so need your help....Thanks in advance!!!!

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FrancoRicardoSchivardi answered deherman-MSFT commented

Azure Managed Disk are used as block-level storage volumes that are managed by Azure and used with Azure VMs (It will be stored as a .VHD file). You have 3 options, Standard HDD/SSD, Premium SSD and Ultra Disks.
Azure File offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via SMB protocol. Azure File shares can be mounted (attached) by both on-premises and cloud machines. Also, applications can mount a file storage share to access file data, just as a desktop application would mount a typical SMB share.

I hope this answered your question.

Best regards!

Franco

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Thank you so much Franco it helps but also need to know the pricing difference between both of them as I have already mentioned I need 10TB of storage for the production to build SQL FCI...

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There's no only one pricing option, because It relies on the region, the redundancy and many other factors that may make one option best fit your needs than the other. Take in count that, if you use Azure Managed Disk, you will also have to create a VM to mouth that VHD. That involves the effort and the cost of maintaining and patching the Operating System of your VM.
If you choose Azure File, the operating system is managed by Microsoft so you can focus on configuring and maintaning the Fileshare only.

Here you can see the pricing for the Azure File option:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/files/

Here is the pricing for Managed Disks:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/

Hope this would be helpful!



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deherman-MSFT answered SumanthMarigowda-MSFT commented

@AshishKumarRanjan-2898 There are several factors besides the amount of data stored that affects the cost. Please see the pages for Azure Files and Azure Managed Disks for more details on pricing. You can also use the Azure Pricing Calculator for a detailed estimation of your costs.


Azure also provides free billing and subscription support. If you have further questions regarding pricing I recommend reaching out to them. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/




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ShibiPGTrianz-7863 answered

what is the throughput/IOPS for different file shares? is the speed will vary when I mount to multiple VMs?

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