Why is business-class storage so expensive?

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Published on 2011-04-26T22:24:48Z Indexed on 2012/11/11 5:05 UTC
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This is a Canonical Question about the Cost of Enterprise Storage.
See also the following question:

What's the best way to explain storage issues to developers and other users

Regarding general questions like:

Why do I have to pay 50 bucks a month per extra gigabyte of storage?
Our file server is always running out of space, why doesn't our sysadmin just throw an extra 1TB drive in there?
Why is SAN equipment so expensive?

The Answers here will attempt to provide a better understanding of how enterprise-level storage works and what influences the price. If you can expand on the Question or provide insight as to the Answer, please post.

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Why is business-class storage so expensive?

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