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- **SSD (Premium)**: Premium file shares use by solid-state drives (SSDs) and provide consistent high performance and low latency, within single-digit milliseconds for most IO operations, for IO-intensive workloads. Premium file shares are suitable for a wide variety of workloads like databases, web site hosting, and development environments. Premium file shares can be used with both Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS) protocols. Premium file shares are deployed in the **FileStorage storage account** kind and are only available in a provisioned billing model. For more information on the provisioned billing model for premium file shares, see [Understanding provisioning for premium file shares](../articles/storage/files/understanding-billing.md#provisioned-model). Premium file shares offer [99.99% availability](https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Service-Level-Agreements-SLA-for-Online-Services) (see "Azure Files Premium Tier").
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- **HDD (Standard)**: Standard file shares use hard disk drives (HDDs) and provide a cost-effective storage option for general purpose file shares. Standard file shares are deployed in the **general purpose version 2 (GPv2) storage account** kind. Standard file shares offer [99.9% availability](https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Service-Level-Agreements-SLA-for-Online-Services) (see "Storage Accounts"). Standard file shares use a pay-as-you-go model that provides usage-based pricing. You can further tailor the ratio between storage and IOPS cost through *access tiers*:
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- **Transaction optimized**: Transaction optimized file shares enable transaction heavy workloads that don't need the latency offered by premium file shares.
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- **Hot**: Hot file shares offer storage optimized for general purpose file sharing scenarios such as team shares.
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- **Cool**: Cool file shares offer cost-efficient storage optimized for online archive storage scenarios.
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- **HDD (Standard)**: Standard file shares use hard disk drives (HDDs) and provide a cost-effective storage option for general purpose file shares. Standard file shares are deployed in the **general purpose version 2 (GPv2) storage account** kind. Standard file shares offer [99.9% availability](https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Service-Level-Agreements-SLA-for-Online-Services) (see "Storage Accounts"). Standard file shares use a pay-as-you-go model that provides usage-based pricing. The *access tier* of a file share enables you to adjust the storage costs against IOPS cost to optimized your total bill:
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- **Transaction optimized** file shares offer the lowest cost transaction pricing for transaction heavy workloads that don't need the low latency offered by premium file shares.
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- **Hot** file shares offer balanced storage and transaction pricing for workloads that have a good measure of both.
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- **Cool** file shares offer the most cost-efficient storage pricing for storage-intensive workloads.
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When selecting a media tier for your workload, consider your performance and usage requirements. If your workload requires single-digit latency, or you're using SSD storage media on-premises, the premium tier is probably the best fit. If low latency isn't as much of a concern, for example with team shares mounted on-premises from Azure or cached on-premises using Azure File Sync, standard storage may be a better fit from a cost perspective.
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