Skip Links  How to calculate the costs of solid state drives  By
John Scaramuzzo, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Storage
Solutions, SanDisk, special to Network World September 18, 2013
07:32 AM ET   Many organizations are considering swapping out
some of their Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for Solid State Drives
(SSD) to increase I/O throughput and power density (IOPS/Watt).
But how do you compare cost vs. performance to determine the
best technology mix for specific application environments?  The
Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has completed an
in-depth analysis of the factors that need to be considered in
comparing HDDs and SSDs for any given application. It concluded
that assessing Total Cost of Ownership offered the most
realistic basis for comparison - assessing both the direct and
indirect cost of deploying a storage system over its life cycle.
Direct costs, labor and capital costs are familiar and
relatively easy to measure. However, indirect costing becomes
more complex to expose. Industry