Growth simulator
Define how your data will grow — “I start with 20TB and add 8TB a year” — and the engine produces a real expansion timeline: bays, cost and the year you need DAS/NAS.
How it works
- 1Tell us start + yearly growth, redundancy and free bays (e.g. 20 TB + 8 TB/yr, parity1, 2 free).
- 2The engine reuses the Storage Planner’s real drive model to compute bays, raw TB and cost per year.
- 3It flags the year you run out of bays or capacity — with the cost to expand and the next step.
What you get
- Year-by-year usable/raw TB, bays needed, fit vs bays & capacity, and delta cost
- Inflection year with actionable next step (add drives, replace with larger drives, or DAS/NAS)
- Calculated with the same redundancy math and pricing as the Storage Planner