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Costs Associated with the Storage of Terabytes?
NetworkAttached asks: "I know of a company that has large online storage requirements - on the order of 50TB - for a new data-warehousing oriented application they are developing. I was astonished to hear that the pricing for this storage (disk, frames, management software, etc...) was nearly $20 million dollars. I've tried to research the actual costs myself, but that information seems all but impossible to find online. For those of you out there with real world experience in this area, is $20 million really accurate? What are the set of viable alternatives out there for storage requirements of this size?"
You then have the problem of housing, and cabling up over 400 drives.
I can't thing of any individual system that can put many dozens of IDE drives into a single raid volume. You might get several dozen, but not several gross.
At that level, one is going have to pay the bux for real iron.
He is a troll