Azure Managed Disks Reviews & Insights

Score8.1 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Azure Managed Disks are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Server-Side Security: Users have consistently praised the platform for its outstanding server-side security. Many reviewers have highlighted its robustness in safeguarding data, ensuring a secure environment for operations. The emphasis on security has garnered widespread appreciation among users for maintaining data confidentiality and integrity effectively.

Scalability and Durability: The platform is widely appreciated by users for being very scalable with high durability. Numerous reviewers have noted that it can easily adapt to changing storage needs while maintaining data integrity over time. This adaptability feature allows businesses to grow without compromising performance or reliability.

Managed Disks Reliability: Managed Disks are consistently praised for their improved reliability. Several users have commended the built-in redundancy and automatic failover capabilities, enhancing user confidence in the platform's performance. The reliable nature of Managed Disks ensures continuous access to critical data without disruptions, contributing to seamless business operations.

Reviews

10 Reviews

Pleased with overall performance of Azure Managed Disks

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 13, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have hundreds of hotels onboard on our serval different softwares and on daily basis they require new functioanlites that are quite specfic for their use in order to make that availble for just that hotel we mostly need to allocate dedicated spaces for our database resoourses and azure managed disks is the perfect solution for it as it is highly scalable and very efficient while providing the best security for your databases.

Pros

outstanding server side security
Well fitted integration system
Very scalable with high durability

Cons

High pricing can be midified to make it more feasable for the community.
A handful number of UI settings can be changed from complex to normal.

Likelihood to Recommend

When it comes to addressing the durability and sacilibity issues with high security and availibilty Azure managed disks might be one of the best options out there but on the other hand if your project is low budgeted you could explore other options as well, as Azure manged disks can be quite expensive.

Rao Tahir

DotNet Project Manager in Engineering at BookingWhizz (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Azure Managed Disks offer performance benefits and flexibility

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure Managed Disks is a great storage service provided by Microsoft Azure that offers several benefits over traditional storage methods. It simplifies the process of creating, configuring, and managing the storage for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) and other Azure services. We have made use of disks to host premium or high performance Virtual Machines.

Pros

Improved reliability: Managed Disks come with built-in redundancy and automatic failover capabilities to ensure high availability and data durability.
Improved reliability: Managed Disks come with built-in redundancy and automatic failover capabilities to ensure high availability and data durability.
Flexible storage options: Managed Disks offer a variety of storage options such as Standard, Premium, and Ultra Disk storage, to cater to different performance and cost requirements.
Easy to use: Managed Disks can be easily created, configured, and managed using the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Azure SDKs.

Cons

Costs: The cost of Managed Disks can be quite high for some workloads, so cost optimization features such as the ability to automatically move data between storage tiers based on usage patterns, or the ability to automatically release unused disks, could be added to help users better manage costs.
Data migration: Managed Disks do not currently support data migration to and from other storage services. Adding support for data migration could make it easier for users to move their data from other storage services to Azure Managed Disks.

Likelihood to Recommend

Virtual Machines: Managed Disks are the recommended storage option for Azure

Virtual Machines Backup and Disaster Recovery: Although more expensive than Blob storage, Managed Disks can be used as the storage target for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery where high performance is a requirement.

High-performance workloads: Managed Disks can be used for other high-performance workloads such as databases

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Azure MD is Good

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure Managed Disks allow for flexibility in a business that is rapidly growing and changing. Storage needs change quickly, and having the ability to purchase and implement space easily is massively helpful. Managed disks even fit more snugly into the Microsoft Azure environment, which makes management easier. We are implementing this for more clients every month.

Pros

Allow quick growth and reduction of available storage
High reliability and uptime
Easy billing

Cons

Price
Integration to 3rd party apps
Conversion of existing HDD

Likelihood to Recommend

When assisting to building a Tech startup, storage needs do change quickly. MS Azure managed disks are easy to manage and implement storage to meet needs on the fly. It allows us to purchase and implement space easily and reliably without wasting time. This important for us to be able to support bursts of growth and new projects every day.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

2 years of experience

Azure Managed Disks - Best in Class

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our client had moved to Azure cloud and we starting setting up Managed Disks feature as well for public files access of users through sharepoint sites. Azure Managed Disk totally helped us to solvedour need to physical disks and managing their backups, fascilitating IT support and high costs associated with it.

Pros

Azure Backup support
Easy VM depoyment
Private Links

Cons

Zero complaints

Likelihood to Recommend

For our client Azure Managed Disks was the best solution as the client was already switched from onsite to cloud and using office 365 and some features of Azure. It provided us speed, scalability, has various security features and the most important it is affordable. Data backup is very comprehensive to configure. We are also using it to manage our Virtual Machines.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Transaction and Knowledge

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

High use for networking and data management for users across various locations and departments. Facilitates travel and sharing for users and team members when manipulating data and congregating results.

Pros

Operates seamlessly for team members regardless of location or department
Allows for user succession as managers move and are replaced by having relevant data available.
Lends itself to upgrades that have been done on several occasions.

Cons

Open source is nice but a bit confusing for many without the full technical background.
Upgrades come but involve a learning curve which can be slow.
Risk management often needs additional oversight which could be better integrated.

Likelihood to Recommend

This helps in the financial services industry with trading acknowledgements, instant fund tranfers, and payment notifications. This eases the compliance concerns of the integrity of the transactions.

Verified User

Advisor in Professional Services (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Azure Managed Disks - Secure, Reliable and Scalable

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 11, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Azure Managed Disks for storing all our data including application data. The software offers great security features and is easy to access which is a plus. In addition, scaling Azure Managed Disks is easy meaning it is affordable as we pay for what we need and scale as our needs increase. What makes Azure Managed Disks special is the ease of transferring data/files to our cloud servers. Most importantly, this platform comes with encryption features for added security.

Pros

Very secure.
Faster data transfer.
Scalable.
Managing data is easy.
It a great platform when it comes to data backup.

Cons

I find Azure Managed Disks flawless.

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Managed Disks is a great tool for storage and data transfer. In addition, it is affordable and scalable, and most businesses with benefit from this Azure product. With Azure Managed Disks, your business will no longer worry about data security and backup.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Secure disk storage software

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 9, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We depend on this platform for the storage of our applications and files generated in the company. It has large storage volumes that can effectively save workloads according to our demands. Transfer of files to our secure cloud servers is faster and reliable. It highly secures our data from the built-in automatic encryption using Microsoft keys.

Pros

Application storage.
provision of data security.

Cons

No room for improvement from my experience.
All the tools functionality is effective.

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Managed Disks provides a reliable data storage platform that is secure and cost-effective. The disks are in sizes that favor different volumes of workloads enabling an organization to make the most preferred choice that can sustain their tasks. It is compatible with our operating systems and cannot easily be spoiled. It provides a backup plan that gives the user more peace of mind while working storing data in it.

Kimberly Brooke

Marketing Analyst in Marketing at SproutLoud Media Networks (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Azure storage, a great disk solution that comes with great features and a growing ecosystem

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 17, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We had a need to have highly available storage in the cloud that was easy to manage and could scale to our business needs. While we had looked into Amazon, we went with Azure as we had a larger footprint in the ecosystem and we liked the features and functionality it provided. Today, we use it to help manage our VMs, as well as help, provide redundant storage for our data lake retention

Pros

Redundancy and high availability is best in class
The ability to manage this in one central place and the Azure ecosystem integration is great.
Infrastructure as code and the ability to manage and maintain has become best in class.

Cons

As Azure is evolving a lot of the new features takes a bit to roll out to manage disk.
It takes a bit of time to provision disk and can be tedious for smaller projects.
I wish there were more options on the types of the disk that are available that would allow us to use it for smaller projects and pocs.

Likelihood to Recommend

The managed disk is ideal for Virtual Machine propagation and ingestion project. From the VM side, we use it to roll out connected disks for our VMs. and for Ingestion, we use it for sensitive files and high availability files that are needed by multiple sources. These two use cases have worked really well for us and have allowed us to scale up and down as our needs and wane and ebbed. The only thing I wish was that this would be cheaper and easier for smaller-scale projects.

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Scalable storage for Azure

Rating: 10 out of 10

November 17, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were performing an internal POC that required processing heavy data. The fast and scalable processing was done by the computation instances and the storage of data was handled by the Azure Managed Disks. Azure Managed Disks scales just as well as the computation instances and hence worked perfectly for our setup

Pros

Scalability
Reliability
Ease of setup

Cons

Nothing comes to mind at the moment

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure computation instances scale very well. Along with the processing power, the storage capacity also needs to scale. This is where the Azure Managed Disks truly shine. They are reliable and are integrated very well with all other Microsoft Azure products. However, the cost is comparatively high. So if someone is tightly coupled with Microsoft Azure services, then the managed disks provide a scalable solution to storage

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Azure Managed Disks for enterprise business

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using Azure Managed Disks as a cloud storage option to dynamically increase or decrease disk space on demand. By utilizing Azure Managed Disks we can quickly expand or contract as the demand is needed by the business. Some days we need more space than others so this allows us to keep our costs low.

Pros

Dynamic allocation of space
Ease of set up
Ease of Management

Cons

UI could be more streamlined
Better Help Documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Managed Disks are best suited for large organizations that wish to keep their cloud costs under control. This cloud storage option allows for a high level of customization. I would not recommend for a small organization as the level of effort to set up and manage may be diminishing gains.

Kyle Kochtan

Application Development Manager in Information Technology at Newell Brands (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Azure Managed Disks offer performance benefits and flexibility

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 27, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Improved reliability: Managed Disks come with built-in redundancy and automatic failover capabilities to ensure high availability and data durability.
Improved reliability: Managed Disks come with built-in redundancy and automatic failover capabilities to ensure high availability and data durability.
Flexible storage options: Managed Disks offer a variety of storage options such as Standard, Premium, and Ultra Disk storage, to cater to different performance and cost requirements.
Easy to use: Managed Disks can be easily created, configured, and managed using the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Azure SDKs.

Cons

Costs: The cost of Managed Disks can be quite high for some workloads, so cost optimization features such as the ability to automatically move data between storage tiers based on usage patterns, or the ability to automatically release unused disks, could be added to help users better manage costs.
Data migration: Managed Disks do not currently support data migration to and from other storage services. Adding support for data migration could make it easier for users to move their data from other storage services to Azure Managed Disks.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience