How much data do you create and store each year?

TB

Calculate

  • You're storing

    of unnecessary data each year.

    • Timeframe
    • Data Storage Costs1
    • Data Erasure Costs1
    • 1 Year
    • $
    • $
    • 3 Years
    • $
    • $

After 3 years2, you could save your organization

1 Data Storage and erasure costs are compounded to include the costs from the previous years and the additional data created and stored each year.

2 Assuming of your data storage costs are no longer necessary.

>10 for positive ROI

data created/ stored each year

tb

This is a baseline number for cloud storage only

Cloud Based Environment $150/TB to store per year

Data Storage Costs

Data Erasure Costs

85% is dark data

TB

year 1

by year 3

by year 5

After 3 years, you could save your organization

assuming

TB of your data storage costs are no longer necessary

Formulas only below this line

Number of TB to be removed (85%)

savings

cost to store

cost to erase

year 1

year 2

year 3

year 4

year 5

year 6

year 7

year 8

year 9

year 10

additional

total

Storage Costs/year

total storage costs (this year and the years before

erasure costs

savings

Cost to Erase

type

per gb/month

per/tb/month

cost per tb/year

average

Google: https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing

Multi-Regional

Regional

nearline

coldline

Microsoft Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/#storage-1

Block Blob

File

Page Blob and Disk

Table and Queue

Amazon AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

standard

infrequent access

Glacier

average

median

Actual

List Price

Quantity

Sales Price

Total Price

Price/TB

USD

Sales Price

Total Price

Price per TB

USD

1-5TB

2

164.46

328.92

200

400

5

153.64

768.2

200

1,000.00

5

176.54

882.7

200

1,000.00

5

178.58

895.4

200

1,000.00

6TB-20TB

6.3

85.42

538.15

100

630

9

83.75

753.75

100

900

10

64.79

647.9

100

1,000.00

10

72.06

720.6

100

1,000.00

10

100

1,000.00

100

1,000.00

10

154.47

1,544.70

100

1,000.00

10

195

1,950.00

100

1,000.00

11.1

85.79

952.27

100

1,110.00

11.64

85.42

994.29

100

1,164.00

14

83.75

1,172.50

100

1,400.00

21TB-100TB

33

98.21

3,240.93

50

1,650.00

39.26

35.7

1,401.58

50

1,963.00

72

9.63

693.36

50

3,600.00

85

64.79

5,507.15

50

4,250.00

90

43.17

3,885.30

50

4,500.00

100

36.28

3,628.00

50

5,000.00

100

39.34

3,934.00

50

5,000.00

101TB-500TB

101

33.18

3,351.18

39

3,938.50

106

27.71

2,937.26

39

4,134.00

150

7.75

1,162.50

39

5,850.00

150

42.04

6,306.00

39

5,850.00

160

33.25

5,320.00

39

6,240.00

180

37.74

6,793.20

39

7,020.00

200

33.25

6,650.00

39

7,800.00

230

27.85

6,405.50

39

8,970.00

230

39

8,970.00

39

8,970.00

501TB-1PB

500

2.14

1,070.00

39

19,500.00

504

9.63

4,853.52

29

14,616.00

1PB +

1000

0.64

640

29

29,000.00

1000

4.33

4,330.00

29

29,000.00