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 |
SCSI "shoebox" (Sun Multipack) |
218GB |
$5650 |
$26 |
Sun Store |
Raw IDE disk (WD) |
20GB |
$100 |
$5 |
Staples |
mid-range RAID (Sun T3) |
655GB |
$84k |
$128 |
Sun Store |
low-end RAID (compaq 4100) |
432GB |
$15k |
$36 |
Compaq website |
high-end RAID (Sun 9960) |
5800GB |
$730k |
$125 |
Sun Store |
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TobyCabot - 28 Feb 2002
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