SANs carry meaningful upfront costs across switches, host bus adapters, storage arrays, and the specialist skills to design and operate them, but they also extend the useful life of storage by allowing capacity to be pooled and shared across hosts. The hidden costs tend to be in licensing for advanced features like replication, snapshots, and tiering, plus the ongoing cost of maintaining redundant fabric for high availability. A clear three-year TCO that compares SAN against modern hyperconverged or cloud alternatives is the right way to frame the investment.
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