NSAM Pricing Guide

Pricing

The official pricing for the NSAM service is on this page. But, those raw numbers are not very useful in determining how much your organization will be charged. The most accurate way to determine pricing, for your specific needs, is to sign up for a pilot program. The second best way to talk about pricing is via some real-world examples. The following chart shows a few different sized data pools and the amount they change over a month period. If your data completely changed during the month, 100% on the x-axis would be the charge point, if your data changed 100% every day, then the 2000% number would apply.

	Note
	NERDC's account department will charge at minimum $5 per month for each node signed up with the NSAM service.

Figure 1. Price versus change in data per month

Here are some real world examples from the Feb 2003 account logs:

Small sized workstation, with about 6GB of very often changing data, is about $5 a month.
Medium sized webserver, with about 10GB of fairly static data, is also $5 a month.
Research server, with about 30GB of very often changing data is about $50 a month.
UFL.EDU mail server, with about 100 million files, and up to 30 versions of each email is about $600 a month.