[2J0]

I hope you can correct my numbers but I am pretty sure this is within the same decimal order of magnitude :

If 1-2TB drives were handily $1k in 2010 (2005 $1K hot you 128GB 15KRPM)

and your array set is at least R10,

already raw storage is approaching half of ten thousand dollars.

And this ignores controllers, cabling and chassis.

And this is before we look at our storage software licenses.

Is backup, point in time SLA, replication and availability in this budget?

[topkai22]

I wasn't really sure what they pitched us technically, but your pitch sounds reasonable. It was also complete overkill- we were hosting read only static images (map tiles). Azure and AWS were less than $300/TB/Year at the time, and their triple replication was more than what we needed availability wise.