To drive home an argument a co-owner of an old hosting company I had, calculated the costs for replacing a single HDD. Everything from buying the HDD, to his h

To drive home an argument a co-owner of an old hosting company I had, calculated the costs for replacing a single HDD. Everything from buying the HDD, to his hours to the parking ticket at the data-center. He convinced me and the point was clear: a single failing HDD would costs us more than renting similar computing power for over 6 years. We had two such failing HDDs in three years prior.