I recently stumbled upon a memo about "ROT data". The point it was trying to convey was: try to minimize the amount of disk space you occupy needlessly.
Now I get the point to some extent, IT costs can be a significant factor. But that article was riddled with some obvious bs claims, presumably to convince tech illiterate folks about the importance of the issue.
But one thing stood out for me: it was claimed that the average annual cost to maintain 1TB of data was 20k-30k euros.
Now I am fully aware that there is more to the cost than servers and hard drives. But that number seems outrageously high to me. What do you think?
Now I get the point to some extent, IT costs can be a significant factor. But that article was riddled with some obvious bs claims, presumably to convince tech illiterate folks about the importance of the issue.
But one thing stood out for me: it was claimed that the average annual cost to maintain 1TB of data was 20k-30k euros.
Now I am fully aware that there is more to the cost than servers and hard drives. But that number seems outrageously high to me. What do you think?