Comment Re:Put yourself in your manager's shoes. (Score 1) 553
Our company prices disk storage at $10,000 per terabyte.
I can quite understand why maintaining 100TB of storage might indeed cost $1,000,000 over some arbitrary period, if that includes hourly backups, off-site backups, 30-minute call-out engineer support, cost of running a machine room, cost of maintaining network infrastucture and cost compliance with laws governing storage of financial records, employee/customer personal data etc.
However, (a) it doesn't follow that 101TB of storage costs $1,010,000/year (that figure will include huge fixed costs) and (b) maybe, just maybe, not everything the company stores on hard disc needs a one-size-fits-all solution with hourly backups, off-site backups, 30-minute call-out blah-de-blah-de-blah.