High network bandwidth (1 Gbps - 100 Gbps) If the network transfer is projected to be reasonable, then you can use any of the following tools detailed in High network bandwidth. This service can also be used to transfer data from Azure Blob storage to disk drives and ship to your on-premises sites. Azure Import/Export – Use Azure Import/Export service by shipping your own disk drives to securely import large amounts of data to Azure Blob storage and Azure Files.Depending on the data size intended for transfer, you can choose from Data Box Disk, Data Box, or Data Box Heavy. Copy on-premises data using tools such as Robocopy. Azure Data Box family for offline transfers – Use devices from Microsoft-supplied Data Box devices to move large amounts of data to Azure when you're limited by time, network availability, or costs.The recommended options in this case are the offline transfer devices from Azure Data Box family or Azure Import/Export using your own disks. If the network transfer is projected to be too slow, you should use a physical device. The table shows the projected time for network data transfer, for various available network bandwidths (assuming 90% utilization). Use the following table to estimate the time and based on that, choose between an offline transfer or over the network transfer. With moderate network bandwidth, you need to project the time for data transfer over the network. Moderate network bandwidth (100 Mbps - 1 Gbps) The options recommended in this scenario depend on whether you have moderate network bandwidth or high network bandwidth. Moderate to high network bandwidth refers to 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps. Large datasets refer to data sizes in the order of TBs to PBs. To understand an overview of all the available data transfer options, go to Choose an Azure data transfer solution. The article also describes the recommended data transfer options and the respective key capability matrix for this scenario. This article provides an overview of the data transfer solutions when you have moderate to high network bandwidth in your environment and you are planning to transfer large datasets.

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