AZ104 -Data Transfer, Data box -Disk, Heavy, Edge Gateway ,

• Data Box Disk:
• Provides one ~35-TB transfer to Azure. Connect and copy data over USB.
• Data Box:
• Provides one ~80-TB transfer to Azure per order. Connect and copy data to the device over standard network interface protocols like SMB and NFS.
• Data Box Heavy:
• Provides one ~800-TB transfer to Azure. Use high-throughput network interfaces to connect and copy data to the device. This process uses standard network interface protocols like SMB and NFS. Data Box Heavy is like two Data Boxes, each with an independent node.

· Online Data Transfer

• Data Box Edge:
• This device is a dedicated appliance with 12 TB of local SSD storage. It can preprocess and run machine learning on data before uploading it to Azure.
• Data Box Gateway:
• This device is an entirely virtual appliance. It’s based on a virtual machine that you provision in your on-premises environment.

· Azure Storage naming conventions apply:

• Subfolder names should be lowercase, from 3 to 63 characters, and consist only of letters, numbers, and hyphens. Consecutive hyphens aren’t allowed.
• Directory and file names for Azure Files shouldn’t exceed 255 characters.
• File size must not exceed ~4.75 tebibytes (TiB) for block blobs, ~8 TiB for page blobs, and ~1 TiB for Azure Files.
• If you’re using Windows, we recommend that you validate the files by using DataBoxDiskValidation.cmd, which is provided in the DataBoxDiskImport folder.
• Azure Data Box family doesn’t support export of data from Azure.
• Azure Storage Explorer doesn’t just access Azure Storage. It can also access data in Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Data Lake.