When you’re in a buying cycle, calculating the cost of different storage options can be overwhelming. And so, more often than not, it’s easiest to default to a well-understood metric that can be applied across solutions—such as cost-per-gigabyte. But that number represents just a fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO). Read the six factors you need to consider when figuring out the TCO of your storage solution and suggestions on how to think through—and even measure—each one.