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Cost of storage calculator?
Hi,
I am trying to come up with a calculator that lets me compute the cost of storage per terabyte of data stored. I have a 3 tier system (with various vendors) with a primary - secondary - tape backup architecture My goal is to see which vendor combinations are providing me the least cost of storage. I would like to know what factors to consider in creating my calculator. For example, even a simple list of items to consider will help. An example list would be: 1. Disks 2. Ports on the switches 3. Licenses for each TB managed by the filer and so on. Also, it would help if someone can give me typical numbers to expect for each item... for example, how much would one normally pay someone like EMC for each TB stored... how do port costs work etc... I really appreciate any help /l |
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Hi Faeandar... thats a good question... we have about 1TB of data and
we do have a datacenter. We are projecting that the growth will be rapid this year and will be going to 10TB by the end of the year because of an acquisition. I am not sure how much we pay for power and space, but I will most likely have to relocate the new storage to a different part of teh building to make room... Taking realestate and power out of the equasion, can you help me with some ways of sizing the price? My question may be more basic than you think... I am naive and even new to what the pricing models on a NetApp filer may look like... how would I go about buying 10TB of space from them? Do they license per terabyte? /l |
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Faeandar ... your reply helped a lot... let me ask some more questions
on your deployment though... when you say $80 per GB... is that just the disk cost or fully loaded (cost including your disk array, licenses etc)? Also, if you had to add another TB in your storage, would it just total cost $800? Also, given storage proces keep reducing, how much do you think the same GB will cost next year? /l |
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Sorry, I meant to say... at $60/GB right now ,would you expect to pay
$60,000 per TB? Also, what rate of decline do you expect on that... what do you expect to pay per GB next year and per TB next year? /l |
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I have the same confusion when I started this project... I am guessing
it is the license cost we have to pay EMC and NetApp etc? Maybe other hardware expenses? You need sometihng to plug the drive into afterall... /l |
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Awesome Bill... thanks for that answer.... I find this to be a common
confusion for newbiews like myself... we tend to automatically just pencil in the cost of the harddrive and then find our forecast very screwed up. |
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