topic Does it make sense to create volume at external location in dev enviroment? in Data Engineering https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/does-it-make-sense-to-create-volume-at-external-location-in-dev/m-p/81847#M36428 <P>I have create a dev resource group for databricks which includes "storage account", "access connector" and "databricks workspace". In the storage account I have created a container which is linked to the metastore. This container also contain raw data. In unity catalog enabled databricks workspace, I have create "bronze", "silver" and "gold" schema which is stored externally as well in the same container. Now, I want to create volume to access "raw" data. My question is, does it make sense to create "external" volume in this case?</P> Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:35:20 GMT hpant1 2024-08-05T09:35:20Z Does it make sense to create volume at external location in dev enviroment? https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/does-it-make-sense-to-create-volume-at-external-location-in-dev/m-p/81847#M36428 <P>I have create a dev resource group for databricks which includes "storage account", "access connector" and "databricks workspace". In the storage account I have created a container which is linked to the metastore. This container also contain raw data. In unity catalog enabled databricks workspace, I have create "bronze", "silver" and "gold" schema which is stored externally as well in the same container. Now, I want to create volume to access "raw" data. My question is, does it make sense to create "external" volume in this case?</P> Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:35:20 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/does-it-make-sense-to-create-volume-at-external-location-in-dev/m-p/81847#M36428 hpant1 2024-08-05T09:35:20Z Re: Does it make sense to create volume at external location in dev enviroment? https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/does-it-make-sense-to-create-volume-at-external-location-in-dev/m-p/82042#M36497 <P>Hei, for some use cases we have created external volumes in Databricks because they needed to access them outside of Databricks and directly on the storage account, as the files had to interact with other tools.</P> Tue, 06 Aug 2024 13:26:19 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/does-it-make-sense-to-create-volume-at-external-location-in-dev/m-p/82042#M36497 antonuzzo96 2024-08-06T13:26:19Z