| author | stevenmatthew |
|---|---|
| ms.service | azure-databox |
| ms.topic | include |
| ms.date | 03/06/2025 |
| ms.author | shaas |
Here's a list of the supported storage accounts and storage types for a Data Box device. For a complete list of all capabilities for all types of storage accounts, see Types of storage accounts.
For import orders, following table shows the supported storage accounts.
| Storage account / Supported storage types | Block blob | Page blob1 | Azure files | Supported access tiers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic Standard | Y | Y | Y | |
| General-purpose v1 Standard | Y | Y | Y | Hot, Cool, Cold, Archive |
| General-purpose v1 Premium | Y | |||
| General-purpose v2 Standard2 | Y | Y | Y | Hot, Cool, Cold, Archive |
| General-purpose v2 Premium | Y | |||
| Azure Premium FileStorage | Y | |||
| Blob storage Standard | Y | Hot, Cool, Cold, Archive | ||
| Block Blob storage Premium | Y | Hot, Cool, Cold, Archive |
1 Data uploaded to page blobs must be 512 bytes aligned such as VHDs.
2 Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is supported for imports but not for exports.
For export orders, following table shows the supported storage accounts.
| Storage account / Supported storage types | Block blob | Page blob* | Azure files | Supported access tiers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic Standard | Y | Y | Y | |
| General-purpose v1 Standard | Y | Y | Y | Hot, Cool |
| General-purpose v1 Premium | Y | |||
| General-purpose v2 Standard | Y | Y | Y | Hot, Cool |
| General-purpose v2 Premium | Y | |||
| Azure Premium FileStorage | Y | |||
| Blob storage Standard | Y | Hot, Cool | ||
| Block Blob storage Premium | Y | Hot, Cool | ||
| Page Blob storage Premium | Y |
- For General-purpose accounts:
- For import orders, Data Box doesn't support Queue, Table, and Disk storage types.
- For export orders, Data Box doesn't support Queue, Table, Disk, and Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage types.
- For FileStorage Storage accounts, Data Box doesn't support Provisioned v2 accounts.
- Data Box doesn't support append blobs for Blob Storage and Block Blob Storage accounts.
- Data uploaded to page blobs must be 512 bytes aligned such as VHDs.
- For exports:
- A maximum of 120 or 525 TB can be exported when using Data Box 120 and Data Box 525, respectively.
- A maximum of 80 TB can be exported when using Data Box.
- File history and blob snapshots aren't exported.
- Archive blobs aren't supported for export. Rehydrate the blobs in archive tier before exporting. For more information, see Rehydrate an archived blob to an online tier.
- Data Box only supports block blobs with Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage accounts. Page blobs aren't allowed and shouldn't be uploaded over REST. If page blobs are uploaded over REST, these blobs would fail when data is uploaded to Azure.