On Mon, 26 May 2003, Michel Py wrote:
2 Disks make 1 500Meg volume.
By my count 500 Megs is 28 disks @$350 ea which is $10k.
Plus 4 hot-swap enclosures with RPS @$2.5k ea $10k more.
Now I need to back it up, takes 3 ultrium drives @ $6k ea is $18k more.
Backup Exec Raid option: $600
2x 64-bit RAID card: $5k
500 gigs = $45K as of today.
You can probably spend a great deal more, if you shop around.
But that is still dirt cheap, for an ISP handling 400,000 messages per
day, with the capability to store 8 months of email. Lease on 45K is
about $500/mo. Still much, much less than $1 per month. Let say we are
going to buy this equipment, and put in the trash after 3 years. Now we
in the vicinity of $1600/mo. Still much, much less than $1 per month per
user.
--Dean