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The rationale for this post is due to observation about users buying computer storage in forum posts.
This is a suggested approach.
1. It is completely restricted to on-site computer storage scenario. It does not address other scenario
2. Investment estimate for primary computer storage
3. Investment estimate for backup/recovery computer storage
4. Total investment for primary/backup/recovery computer storage
5. You can play around with point 2,3,4 by alternating percentile. Since there is a limit for total investment, you have a practical bound.
6. The following is analogy. For example, many know Ferrari, Mercedes, Porsche, misc. But maybe you only have available budget for a bicycle. There is nothing negative about this. The key is realistic expectation with respect to investment.
7. There are also boutique special car projects built by very capable professionals/highly dedicated engineering types/boutique houses. In this case, the common sense is that user is expected to be highly involved as well, from the perspective of car industry. In this scenario, even if you are not hand-building the gears, at the minimum user will be expected to drive the resulting specialthy cars, say race cars. Skillset is indeed needed to drive race cars, though maybe different skillset. For example, F1, Desert Race, jungle track perhaps all with different characteristic.
8. Within car industry, there is obviously also space, say, for example, Ford Escort, which only requires drivers to have generic certified driver license.
9. Some car buyers want and pay for speed. Some pay for premium comfort. Some pay to seat many passengers in one car, normal family sedans probably value safety, mile/gallon, misc.
10. Hence, after determining investment figure/percentile(point-5/6), priorities(point-9) you may want to determine your personal involvement percentile(point-7/8), so that you can decide from there.
11. Remember in the car analogy, you still need to pay for gas, periodic maintenance, battery water or new battery, long-term parts replacement, and misc, if you intend to keep the car for long service years.
Additional Notes
A. Computer storage has very wide spectrum, so perhaps it is more varied than the car analogy here.
B. Car has many parts so maybe from involvement scale it is perhaps more demanding. Normal computer storage maybe more approachable for different groups/perspective.
C. Obviously for very sophisticated scenario, computer storage can be very complex as well.
Example
E1. You need computer storage.
E2. You have X dollars for primary computer storage
E3. You do not have any dollars for backup/recovery storage.
interrupt-at this point, tech will advise, if this is important, you need to have backup. If you only have X dollars, then you must devide X/2 for primary and backup storage, for example. If it is not important, then proceed.
E4. Total investment is X-dollars.
E5. say it has some sentimental value, then X/2, one for primary, one for backup. (this is arbitrary since many can also propose alternative scheme to vary the percentile by using different method/medium/compromise)
E6. I saw an example setup somewheret, but it costs X-dollar multiply by Y. can or cannot afford ???
E7. Either I do not have time for professional training, or else I am very fluent with this stuff, you decide.
E8. For entry-level GUI point-and-click, should be ok.
E9. I want so many things.
E10. I only have X-dollar. Reality check, evaluate all the above.
E11. electricity cost, hard disk failure requiring replacement part. software updates, For production use, maybe you consider paying for maintenance for expensive storage system, misc stuff like that.
This is a suggested approach.
1. It is completely restricted to on-site computer storage scenario. It does not address other scenario
2. Investment estimate for primary computer storage
3. Investment estimate for backup/recovery computer storage
4. Total investment for primary/backup/recovery computer storage
5. You can play around with point 2,3,4 by alternating percentile. Since there is a limit for total investment, you have a practical bound.
6. The following is analogy. For example, many know Ferrari, Mercedes, Porsche, misc. But maybe you only have available budget for a bicycle. There is nothing negative about this. The key is realistic expectation with respect to investment.
7. There are also boutique special car projects built by very capable professionals/highly dedicated engineering types/boutique houses. In this case, the common sense is that user is expected to be highly involved as well, from the perspective of car industry. In this scenario, even if you are not hand-building the gears, at the minimum user will be expected to drive the resulting specialthy cars, say race cars. Skillset is indeed needed to drive race cars, though maybe different skillset. For example, F1, Desert Race, jungle track perhaps all with different characteristic.
8. Within car industry, there is obviously also space, say, for example, Ford Escort, which only requires drivers to have generic certified driver license.
9. Some car buyers want and pay for speed. Some pay for premium comfort. Some pay to seat many passengers in one car, normal family sedans probably value safety, mile/gallon, misc.
10. Hence, after determining investment figure/percentile(point-5/6), priorities(point-9) you may want to determine your personal involvement percentile(point-7/8), so that you can decide from there.
11. Remember in the car analogy, you still need to pay for gas, periodic maintenance, battery water or new battery, long-term parts replacement, and misc, if you intend to keep the car for long service years.
Additional Notes
A. Computer storage has very wide spectrum, so perhaps it is more varied than the car analogy here.
B. Car has many parts so maybe from involvement scale it is perhaps more demanding. Normal computer storage maybe more approachable for different groups/perspective.
C. Obviously for very sophisticated scenario, computer storage can be very complex as well.
Example
E1. You need computer storage.
E2. You have X dollars for primary computer storage
E3. You do not have any dollars for backup/recovery storage.
interrupt-at this point, tech will advise, if this is important, you need to have backup. If you only have X dollars, then you must devide X/2 for primary and backup storage, for example. If it is not important, then proceed.
E4. Total investment is X-dollars.
E5. say it has some sentimental value, then X/2, one for primary, one for backup. (this is arbitrary since many can also propose alternative scheme to vary the percentile by using different method/medium/compromise)
E6. I saw an example setup somewheret, but it costs X-dollar multiply by Y. can or cannot afford ???
E7. Either I do not have time for professional training, or else I am very fluent with this stuff, you decide.
E8. For entry-level GUI point-and-click, should be ok.
E9. I want so many things.
E10. I only have X-dollar. Reality check, evaluate all the above.
E11. electricity cost, hard disk failure requiring replacement part. software updates, For production use, maybe you consider paying for maintenance for expensive storage system, misc stuff like that.
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