Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
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Is Azure Data Box available for new Azure accounts (new customer)?
Briefly say you just created a new Azure account in India and want to transfer 70 TB via Data Box. i want to transfer form Chennai location. #azure-data-box
Azure Data Box
asked 2026-05-25T07:32:20.9033333+00:00
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Madhavaraja s
0
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commented 2026-05-29T06:06:02.3433333+00:00
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Venkatesan S
10,175
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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1 answer
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Azure Data Box Device FIPS validated Encryption
I'm trying to find information to confirm if Azure Data Box uses FIPS validated modules for data encryption. This article says hardware encryption and Bitlocker is used. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databox/data-box-disk-security however, it…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2026-05-04T14:32:33.9466667+00:00
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Don Carter
20
Reputation points
accepted 2026-05-06T14:04:06.9+00:00
Don Carter
20
Reputation points
2 answers
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
Migrate data from NAS to Azure Files using Azure Data Box
Hello, I need to migrate data using Azure Data Box, does it support direct copy from Azure Data Box to Azure Files or I need to go through a Blob first. The goal is to conserve on-premise ACLs. Thank you. Best Regards, Mike
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2026-05-05T12:21:39.9033333+00:00
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Michel Sfeir
250
Reputation points
accepted 2026-05-06T09:50:39.15+00:00
Michel Sfeir
250
Reputation points
1 answer
One of the answers was accepted by the question author.
We are not able to unlock the Azure data box disk.
We are not able to unlock the Azure data box disk. The disk unlock tool cannot open the disk, please check and help us, we retrieved from the portal Device Details section. [ERROR]: Could not unlock any of the drives with the provided…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2026-02-17T11:14:23.8966667+00:00
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Sagar Kumar
40
Reputation points
edited the question 2026-02-19T06:38:49.5933333+00:00
Venkatesan S
10,175
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
2 answers
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What is the best way to move 30 TB of data from VM disk storage to blob storage
What is the best approach for moving ~17 TB (ultimately ~30 TB) of data from Azure VM disk storage to long-term storage, with the following goals in mind? Cost efficiency Minimal downtime Minimal impact on system performance Our immediate need is to…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2026-02-09T15:23:31.4133333+00:00
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Tiffany Wood-Admin
20
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answered 2026-02-09T17:11:47.99+00:00
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Ravi Varma Mudduluru
12,535
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
Issue in Subscription to order Azure data box disk to India region my Blob storage is in US-East
My azure blob storage is in Azure us-east & my 10 TB data is in India region, I am thinking to order Azure data box disk India. What will be the pricing, including shipping & cross-region? Only one option available in my subscription
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2026-01-23T09:26:49.4+00:00
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Garvit Arora
20
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answered 2026-01-23T10:10:39.9733333+00:00
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Vallepu Venkateswarlu
10,430
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
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Azure Import/Export job to export to a disk Status
I put in an Azure Data Box Import/Export job to export to a disk I sent to Microsoft, and my disk was received on 10/29. It says in 3-5 days the data copy should begin. Nothing has happened and it is just sitting there. Does anyone know a phone number…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-11-10T17:07:11.4466667+00:00
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Rob Ludlam
80
Reputation points
accepted 2026-01-06T16:29:15.8833333+00:00
Rob Ludlam
80
Reputation points
0 answers
NFS Access Settings: Could not find the share storageaccountname_BlockBlob
After configuring the network interfaces, we are not able to copy data using NFS. We are getting the error: "NFS Access Settings: Could not find the share storageaccountname_BlockBlob" when we try to add an NFS client IP address. So, looks like…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-09-11T09:45:18.3566667+00:00
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Azure - Yehia Kotp
0
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commented 2025-09-12T09:44:29.6366667+00:00
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Anonymous
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I am unable to create a data box from my current subscription and what will be cost to export 50 tb data to data box to outside azure?
I have a current subscription unable to create a data box creation request. Will there be Egress charges? What will be the total cost for exporting 50TB of data from Azure to out of azure using data box.
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-09-10T19:07:35.1333333+00:00
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KRITHIKA RAO
0
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answered 2025-09-10T20:01:18.4833333+00:00
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Ganesh Patapati
12,000
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
Hmm, I want to export somewhere around 40TB of data from one of our StorageV2 blob storage containers to a customer's on-prem site in India. Should i pay for any ingress or egress charge for the same
I plan to export approximately 50TB of data from one of our StorageV2 blob storage containers to a customer’s on-premises site in India. Will I incur any ingress or egress charges for this transfer?
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-08-26T06:15:46.2433333+00:00
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Manish Santosh Thorat
0
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commented 2025-08-28T08:56:15.57+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer
Azure Data Box Export stalled at 99.99%
I shipped a SATA HDD to the Central US datacenter to export my blobs via the import/export service. The drive has been received and the copy job ran and got to 99.99% complete. It has been sitting at that status for several days now. What can be done to…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-07-28T19:41:20.83+00:00
Andy Engle
5
Reputation points
commented 2025-07-30T18:50:33.9933333+00:00
Andy Engle
5
Reputation points
1 answer
data from on-premises to azure and azure to on-premises
Hello, I'm a beginner with very little experience in azure. Please understand. I'm going to store the data (such as files) from the physical server (linux) in azure storage through azure and bring it to the local server when I want to use it. So I…
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
An Azure service that stores unstructured data in the cloud as blobs.
3,415 questions
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2024-07-23T08:37:42.3766667+00:00
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류호원(결제플랫폼팀)
0
Reputation points
commented 2025-07-29T12:04:15.7533333+00:00
Ganesh Patapati
12,000
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Moderator
1 answer
How many days to upload the data from client location to azure data center
Hi Team, How many days it will take to upload 5 TB data which is sent through Azure Data Box from client location to Azure Data Center. Can we hand over the data box to azure data center directly to minimize the travel time.
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-07-01T18:27:23.01+00:00
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Murali Chatrathi
0
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edited an answer 2025-07-01T20:00:05.2266667+00:00
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Marcin Policht
99,785
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Volunteer Moderator
1 answer
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Can I delete a Delete Data box resource after copy is complete
I've just migrated our on prem archive files to azure using a data box. The migration is complete, can I just delete the data box resource in azure?
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
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Azure Data Box Disk VHDX Upload
Hi all, I have a question - on careful reviewing of the Data Box documentation it says "Only fixed VHDs can be uploaded to create managed disks. Dynamic VHDs, differencing VHDs, and VHDX files aren't supported." My disk file is a VHDX. I…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
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Attempting to Write VHD Image to Edge Pro device. Failed
Attempting to write VM image to Azure Edge Pro 2. Operation name: Write Deployments Error code: ResourceOperationFailure Message: The resource operation completed with terminal provisioning state 'Failed'. How do I attempt…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-03-12T14:15:17.1433333+00:00
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frank stud
0
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answered 2025-03-14T00:03:21.9466667+00:00
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Sudheer Reddy
2,075
Reputation points
Moderator
1 answer
Data Box for export not available
Hmm, I want to export somewhere around 50TB of data from one of our StorageV2 blob storage containers to a customer's on-prem site in Denmark. I thought I could create a Data Box for export but it appers it is not available for my subscription. What are…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-02-20T15:18:05.1333333+00:00
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Ulf Brehmer
0
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commented 2025-02-28T18:40:15.3133333+00:00
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Syed Aaqid Ali
585
Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
Volunteer Moderator
1 answer
azure data can export the data of my blob and file share storage ?
I having a 80Tib data in the azure blob and file share so if i wanted to download to get that data from the az data box so it that possible ? i wanted to export that but according to link…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2025-02-27T04:54:25.9533333+00:00
Mr Kiran Pimpalkar
0
Reputation points
answered 2025-02-27T10:04:23.5666667+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer
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Can we remove the recycle Bin on the root folder
Hi, this question is related to the question I asked in the below thread. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2119666/regarding-data-copy-speed-to-databox I copied some data to test the speed and removed some data which landed in the…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2024-11-19T20:19:21.46+00:00
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Kavitha Andem
20
Reputation points
accepted 2024-11-22T14:48:43.83+00:00
Kavitha Andem
20
Reputation points
1 answer
Regarding data copy speed to databox
Hi, Can we copy some random data to data box disk to test the speed of data copy to the disk. We just want to know how much time it takes to copy about 6 TB of data using PC connection instead of Server connection. Once we test the Speed and time taken…
Azure Data Box
Azure Data Box
A family of appliances and solutions for offline data transfer to Azure.
61 questions
asked 2024-11-15T22:57:10.9066667+00:00
Kavitha Andem
20
Reputation points
answered 2024-11-16T00:47:31.7833333+00:00
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KarishmaTiwari-MSFT
20,947
Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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