New Microsoft Azure SSD storage will offer better bang for your buck
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Microsoft has released the latest version of its Azure Premium line of solid-state drive (SSD) cloud storage available for general sale.
The company announced the release of the latest Azure Premium SSD v2 storage at the Ignite event following: an invitation preview release in May 2022 (opens in new tab).
The new line of high-capacity enterprise drives is designed to provide the lowest latency for “performance-critical workloads” while also allowing storage expansion up to 64 terabytes (TiB).
Microsoft Azure Premium v2 Enhancements
Microsoft claims to have achieved latency of less than a millisecond with the new drives and offers 80,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) – a 60% improvement over Azure Premium V1.
Data transfers should also be blazingly fast, with guaranteed baseline throughput of 125 megabytes per second (MBPS) across all drives under the new specification, and peak throughput of 1,200 MBPS – a 33% overall improvement over V1.
The increases in storage capacity may also be of interest to users of Azure Premium SSD v1 who feel limited by the maximum 32 TiB available.
Microsoft claims that the overall performance improvements in the new line of drives are suitable for a number of workloads and purposes, from database software Like it SQL Server and Oracle, to analysis, virtual machines (VMs) and gaming.
The company is even looking for enterprise customers who may not immediately need the benefits of Azure Premium V2, with the promise that enterprises can deliver storage capacity, IOPS and throughput “according to their workload requirements”.
As a result, the new range of drives could even appeal to smaller businesses that may experience steady growth, while also helping large companies reduce their cloud costs during a recession.