Re: Cost Comparisons: Centralized Data Storage -vs- Local

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Jose'

We did a study similar to what you are asking here about two years ago. As 
the cost/mb. of storage has dropped the actual numbers would not be useful 
to you. However, some of the factors that your users are not taking into 
consideration when they look at the cost of the disks are:
	1) maint. costs
	2) admis. costs
	3) file sharing
	4) backups

In the study that we did, it was the aditional costs that I mentioned
above that swung the cost/mb over to the central storage. We ended up 
buying an Auspex (a more expesive solution) because of the extra security 
provided by the RAID arch.

Rene' Gobeyn
Eastman Kodak
Rochester NY