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Cost of storage calculator?
Bill Todd wrote:
The key to the answer is that the cost was expressed per GB *per year*. One can probably buy a pretty decent storage system for well under $10/GB these days, but the purchase cost typically represents only a small fraction of the overall expenditu management costs are usually ballparked at something like 5x - 7x the purchase cost (likely including license costs but possibly not service costs), and license and service agreement costs can easily more than double the raw hardware cost over the life of the product. And internal support/management si probably related to the number of users. A video storage bank will have lower maintenance costs PER GB than a database server or office data storage. Think about value of data, volatility of data, number of users, changing requirements, special software, etc. Thomas |
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