Azure offers four disk types of managed disks and we can choose any type based on the business needs. Azure provides an option to switch between the three GA disk types premium SSD, standard SSD, and standard HDD based on your performance needs.
Let’s see how to change the disk type from Premium SSD to Standard SSD.
1. Login to Azure Portal and power down the Azure VM
2. Select the instance and click on the Disks from the settings tab.
3. Click on the disk which needs to be changed from premium account type to standard or HDD storage account.
4. From the size+performance type, change to the desired account type.
6. Here, I have changed the storage account type from premium SSD to standard SSD.
7. Changing the storage account type would not take more than a minute. You could see similar notifications once the account type got changed.
8. Start the VM.
We have successfully converted the azure instance’s managed storage account type from premium SSD to standard HDD.