If you follow the announcements during the Microsoft Build 2017 conference on the beginning of the month, one of the announcements was the increase of the size of the disks in Azure. Azure had a hard limit of a 1TB size disks. But those days are almost over. Oh Yeah Baby!

During one session at the Build 2017 about Big data workloads with Azure Blob Storage, they announce the increase of those disk limits. Today, Microsoft announce the preview of those disks.

So, what is that means? Beside the increase of the size, they are increasing the performance of the disks as well. Be able to have more space and IOPS is always nice.

New Disk Sizes Details

This table provides more details on the exact capabilities of the new disk sizes in Azure:

Disk Type	P40 (Premium)	P50 (Premium)	S40 (Standard)	S50 (Standard)
Disk Size	2048 GB	4095 GB	2048 GB	4095 GB
Disk IOPS	7,500 IOPS	7,500 IOPS	Up to 500 IOPS	Up to 500 IOPS
Disk Bandwidth	250 MBps	250 MBps	Up to 60 MBps	Up to 60 MBps

To see the session for further details

[embed]https://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2017/B8008[/embed]

Cheers,

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