I’m sure that $10k/terabyte quote was complete overkill for what we needed- but that’s what the stove piped storage org was offering, and it killed the project we were working on.
If 1-2TB drives were handily $1k in 2010 (2005 $1K hot you 128GB 15KRPM)
and your array set is at least R10,
already raw storage is approaching half of ten thousand dollars.
And this ignores controllers, cabling and chassis.
And this is before we look at our storage software licenses.
Is backup, point in time SLA, replication and availability in this budget?
The overall system ended up with worse capabilities than it should have had, but it did ship.