This TCO really isn't any surprise for those of us who design on and off prem solutions. But I wouldn't want to put my `active` critical data on a single box like this. It's a stressful business hosting critical data and I'd rather give that to someone else who can offer those 9's - even if it does cost loads more.

But I love this box for Veeam and Commvault so you should create a TCO for on-prem Veeam repositories (2016, ReFS Storage Spaces) against Veeam Cloud Connect providers offerings, as that will show you MASSIVE savings as IaaS cloud based backup repo's are very expensive.

So the solution are comparing in this blog is all wrong, you should target it at Backup, CCTV, Archive solutions - Not general purpose `data intensive workloads`