AIMS AND SCOPE

NRENs and other academic organisations consider buying or building the storage infrastructure. Aim of this work is to help the system designers  in understanding the real costs of the storage infrastructure.

TCO calculator enables analysing the storage infrastructure costs including the hardware investments costs as well as operational costs such as energy, maintenance and data center related costs.

It also calculates and simulaes overal system parameters such as system throughput, IOPS etc.

into account the costs related to hardware platforms including servers, HDD drives and SSD drives.