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Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay?

Posted by timothy on from the wonder-what-the-dept-of-education-pays dept.

CodePwned writes "I recently took over a position at a rather large company where I discovered my group was paying $30 per gigabyte per month! That's $360 per year per gigabyte to our own IT department. While I understand costs are different depending on the scale, redundancy, backup and support methods, there doesn't seem to be any good papers on what range you should expect your costs to be. So far, my research shows an average of $1 per gigabyte or less for internally hosted space. What do you pay?"

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  1. Re:$40 by camperdave · · Score: -1, Troll

    We pay a one time $40 per gigabyte as the capital cost of acquiring the storage. There is no monthly cost. I think $40 is still way too much.

    Considering you can buy a two terabyte Seagate ST32000542AS Barracuda LP Hard Drive for $120, yeah, $40/gigabyte is way too much.

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  2. Re:wrong question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What was missing from the Million Man March? Three miles of chain and an auctioneer.

  3. Re:Eh? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, but unlike government, a private company that is grossly inefficient will expire and die (or get a Government bailout being "too big to die)

    Government only grows and grows (see parenthetical above).

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  4. STFU by Hecatonchires · · Score: 0, Troll

    When I go over quota on my current plan, I am charged at the rate of $0.15 a meg for two gig, and then capped. There's $300, or $150 for a gig.

    I know you're complaining about what your IT team charge your internal department for the service. Don't whine to slashdot, whine to the CIO

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