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| "Back in the day" I used to spec disk storage (e.g. EMC Symmetrix) for customers who paid around $1000/GB. Then I spent about 2 years away from the system sizing game. When I got back into the flow in Feb 2002 I looked around to figure out new rules of thumb for storage costs. On a continuum from cheap to pricey: | ||||||||
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| > > | Here's a much more comprehensive look at this subject: http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte | |||||||
Here's an interesting article about how the pros do large-scale cost-effective disk storage: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
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