Attach 64TB disk(s) to Azure VMs - please vote up this feature suggestion if you need it too

http://feedback.azure.com/forums/34192--general-feedback/suggestions/6555737-attach-64tb-disk-s-to-azure-vms
Each Azure storage account comes with 500 TB of block blob storage capacity. However, this vast storage
is not available to be used via an Azure VM. 
The best we can do right now is attach 16x 1TB disks (page blobs) to an A4 or bigger VM. This poses few
problems: 
1. 16TB is way too small for many use cases such as using Azure as backup/DR target 
2. This coupling of storage to RAM/CPU is undesirable and drives enterprise clients to other cloud providers. 
When will Microsoft provide us the ability to make VHDX 64TB+ files in Azure block blob storage and
attach them to Azure VMs? 
Dozens of cloud providers make such functionality available. When will be able to have the same in Azure??
Sam Boutros, Senior Consultant, Software Logic, KOP, PA http://superwidgets.wordpress.com (Please take a moment to Vote as Helpful and/or Mark as Answer, where applicable) _________________________________________________________________________________
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This is a useful feature. I have voted it. Thanks Sam~~
Regards,
Tough_v

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    This coupling of storage to RAM/CPU is undesirable and drives enterprise clients to other cloud providers. 
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    Dozens of cloud providers make such functionality available. When will be able to have the same in Azure??
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    Hi Sam,
    Thanks for your posting!
    As your known, currently, Azure Disk max size is just u to 1TB. The new feature --Azure File Service max size is up to 5TB (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx
    ). For this issue, I suggest you could contact the Azure Technical support to resolve it. Or you can submit a feature request on the feedback page (http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com/forums/34192-windows-azure-feature-voting.)
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