Almost all Azure virtual machine sizes come with a temporary disk. The temporary disk is a locally attached SSD drive that comes with a couple of desirable features if you’re installing a SQL Server on your VM:

• Because it is locally attached, it has lower latency than regular disks.
• IO and storage are not billed like regular storage.

As the name implies, the temporary disk is not persistent, meaning that it will be wiped if you shut down your VM or if the VM moves to another VM host (as part of maintenance or troubleshooting). For that reason, we never want to put anything on the temporary disk that we need to keep.

tempdb could be a good fit

Since tempdb is wiped and recreated every time we start a SQL Server instance, it could be a great candidate to have on the temporary drive, provided a few prerequisites are met:

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