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Computing database storage

Use the following formula to compute your total required database storage:
20 + (2.0 *
U
/ 10000) + ((40 *
U
*
A
/ (10000 * 1000)) *
Y
) GB
where:
U
= The number of users you will have.
A
= The number of alerts you will create every year.
Y
= The number of years the alerts will be kept online.
The following table depicts the storage requirements based on the formula above. This table has been computed assuming that alert data retention period is three years.
Retention 3 years
Total alerts per month
Users
30
60
100
200
500
5,000
23
25
27
33
51
10,000
26
29
34
46
82
25,000
34
43
55
85
175
50,000
48
66
90
150
330
100,000
76
112
160
28
640
500,000
300
480
720
1320
3120