Excuse me, that’s$ 320,000 a year.
“$ 320,000 a year”
Someone’s living off that.
Hardware and power will not consume that kinda money even on .gov standards. An SSD RAID-10 running a VM RAID 10 cluster on 10GBps should suffice for 20K active users.
IMO of course.
I always got DoD handmedowns on my coalition networks (MCFI, GCTF, and the CPNs). You have to make them work. Ex.: a NIPR SAN life cycles out of service. End Of Life. It cannot be used any more per Regulation. They trash the whole 96 disk SAN, chassis and all. Prior to degaussing the disks I (or anyone else with a valid requirement) go in and cannibalize the whole thing for use on Coalition Secret networks. As it’s a classification upgrade it’s permitted w/o degaussing. Voila. A new, used SAN with maybe 3 bad disks. That leaves me with a spare SAN chassis and 93 hard drives. Plenty of spares for my networks.
With SSDs the life cycles get pushed way out. My personal box is a 2012 Asus Sabertooth X58 using Crucial SSDs. Two are on the 6GBps channels from the board’s Marvel extension card.
Well, I’m retired now. This is post is merely an afterglow from my mind.