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Big Storage: Make or Buy?: We hear it all the time. The cost of disk space is plummeting.

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Your local CompUSA is happy to sell you a 200-gigabyte ATA drive for $300, which comes to about $1,500 per terabyte. Go online and save even more - $1,281 for 1 terabyte of drive space (using, say, 7X Maxtor EIDE 153-GB ATA/113 5400-RPM drives). So why would anyone pay $360,000 to XYZ Storage System Corp. for a 16-terabyte system? I mean, what’s so hard about storage? Good question.

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              Queue  Volume 1, Issue 4
              Storage
              June 2003
              50 pages
              ISSN:1542-7730
              EISSN:1542-7749
              DOI:10.1145/864056
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