Back in the day I used to spec disk storage (e.g. EMC Symmetrix) at around $1000/GB. Then I spent about 2 years away from the system sizing game. When I got back into the flow in Feb 2002 I looked around to figure out new rules of thumb for storage costs. On a continuum from cheap to pricey: | *type* | *amount* | *cost* | *$/GB* | *source* | | Raw IDE disk (WD) | 20GB | $100 | $5 | Staples | | SCSI "shoebox" (Sun Multipack) | 218GB | $5650 | $26 | Sun Store | | low-end RAID (compaq 4100) | 432GB | $15k | $36 | Compaq website | | mid-range RAID (Sun T3) | 655GB | $84k | $128 | Sun Store | | high-end RAID (Sun 9960) | 5800GB | $730k | $125 | Sun Store | -- Main.TobyCabot - 28 Feb 2002 <br />
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