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VHD to Archive Storage
I have a disk with some files (About 1 TB) that will probably never be needed. However they might be needed so I have to keep them somewhere. I thought that the archive storage tier would be the perf...
I'm spit balling here, but have you considered using AZcopy? You can use it transfer data to/from different storage types.
You can set up another Azure storage account and copy the data from your page blob to a drive you can store cold.
I had read somewhere that with azcopy if it came from a page blob the new copy would still be a page blob and that there wasn't a switch in azcopy to change from page to block blob or vice versa.
However, I didn't verify that so I may have to test it