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Describe Unstructured Storage Essentials in Azure

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Storage Explorer: It is a useful GUI tool to inspect and alter data in Azure Storage. It can be used to upload, download, and manage blobs, files, queues, and tables from any platform, anywhere. It is provided by Microsoft.

Block Blobs: In block blobs, the blobs are comprised of blocks that are identified by unique block ID. The maximum size of blocks is restricted to 100MB, and each block blob can have 50,000 blocks which are ideal for storing text or binary files, such as documents and media files.

Page Blobs: Page blobs are the collection of 512-byte pages optimized for random read and write. These are used for storing VHD files of Azure VM as OS and Data disks. The maximum size of page blobs is 8TB.

Append Blob: This type is used to append blobs that are used for logging scenarios. The maximum size of append blob is 195 GB.

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