The HDP Standard offering uses Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs) for storage.

The HDP Standard offering uses 10 attached VHDs per VM, which gives the best balance of performance and storage density.

Depending on the type of VM that you use, it is possible to use Azure Premium Storage. DS-, DSv2-, or GS-Series Azure VMs can use Azure Premium Storage.

For additional information regarding Azure Premium storage, see Premium Storage: High-Performance Storage for Azure Virtual Machine Workloads.

	Note
	With Azure Premium Storage, you pay for all storage capacity up front. With non-premium storage, you only pay for the storage you use.