Brad Johns Consulting L.L.C.

The data storage market has experienced unprecedented price increases and supply constraints this year, and we updated the Fujifilm TCO tool to reflect the price increases in disk and tape storage. In addition, we reduced future price-reduction estimates to 5% annually, given the likelihood of continued supply constraints for at least the next 2-3 years. We also updated power and network bandwidth. For capacities greater than 20 PB, the tape system prices are based on LTO 10

The new LTO 10 tape drives and media have been added to the TCO tool. Since only the Full Height drive was announced, configurations for less than 20 PB will continue to use LTO 9. For the larger configurations, the ten-year TCO is based on LTO 10 and a future migration to LTO 12. For configurations less than 20 PB, the ten-year TCO is based on LTO 9 with a future migration to LTO 11 in year 6. Industry disk pricing and power costs have been updated to account for today’s hig

IBM announced the LTO Generation 10 30 TB tape cartridge and full-height tape drive earlier this week. The announcement brought back...