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by chrismiller 5545 days ago
Something I just realised (not sure if you took this into account in your calculations) is that the article we linked was published in 2009.

In all of their calculations they list 1.5tb Sata HDDs as costing $129. Those same disks can now be purchased for between $50 and $60. So at 45 disks in each of the servers that would be a saving of $3105 per server or ~$46,000 in total savings.