Storage costs

What your archive actually costs.

Cost per TB over the life of your archive: complete XPNTL Archive systems against an enterprise disk appliance and a public cloud archive tier. Move the sliders; every figure recalculates.

Your archive

Model your savings

Set your archive size, growth and term. Every figure below recalculates as you move the sliders.

Change the assumptions

The Xponential difference

Calculating…

Cost per TB over 5 years, lower is better

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Complete archive systems

Hardware, software and updates, priced as one system.

Line by line

Total cost of ownership

What the numbers show

    Assumptions

    What every column assumes.

    Change any of these under Change the assumptions. The full method: methodology.

    Up front

    What you buy on day one.

      The up-front figure is part of the total above, not in addition to it.

      What it costs to keep is half the question. What it costs in time to get back: Recovery Planner.

      The disk and cloud figures and the shared rates come from the storage cost model published by LTO Show, with its methodology and sources public. LTO Show and XPNTL Archive share an owner.

      Run the numbers on your own drive.