Storage

Estimate audio storage from PCM settings or encoded bitrate, with multitrack counts, media-fit checks, duration curves, and exports.

Plan backup repository capacity from data size, retention, change rate, copy tiers, reserves, raw overhead, and budget runway checks.

Estimate backup restore time from logical size, compression, tested throughput, fixed recovery phases, and RTO margin checks.

Plan backup rotation storage from full and incremental sizes, with GFS tiers, dedupe assumptions, retention horizon, and audit notes.

Estimate retained CI artifact storage from build cadence, retention, active refs, compression, caches, reserve, and quota headroom.

Plan camera memory cards from stills, video bitrate, reserve, dual-slot mode, and speed class with capacity and write-speed checks.

Estimate Ceph usable capacity from node sizes, replica or erasure-code protection, failure-domain reserve, nearfull policy, and PG hints.

Convert data transfer rates between bits, bytes, SI, and IEC units, model overhead, and test payload ETAs against a time window.

Plan database storage runway from table growth, indexes, logs, backups, replicas, headroom, autoscale ceilings, and cost signals.

Convert file or disk sizes across decimal and IEC units, then estimate usable space, allocation slack, and common storage fit tiers.

Estimate GlusterFS usable capacity from brick sizes, replica or dispersed layout, arbiter sizing, stranded space, and recovery headroom.

Convert IOPS, throughput, and daily data volume from block size and active hours, then compare reserve-adjusted ceilings and cloud disk fit.

Calculate the log sampling rate needed to fit a daily storage target, with event-size math, protected reserves, burst planning, and keep-policy cues.

Estimate monthly object storage cost from average capacity, object size, requests, retrieval, egress, lifecycle exposure, and editable rate cards.

Calculate retained observability storage from event rate, event size, retention, compression, replicas, overhead, reserve, and quota headroom.

Estimate packet capture storage from link rate, duration, filters, snap length, pcap overhead, compression, and reserve before a capture run.

Plan Prometheus retention storage from active series or samples/sec, including WAL/head reserve, disk headroom, and retention.size guidance.

Plan RAID usable capacity from drive count, drive size, layout, hot spares, overhead, and reserve with target-fit and sizing-path checks.

Estimate RAID IOPS and throughput from drive benchmarks, read-write mix, write locality, rebuild reserve, controller caps, and degraded targets.

Plan a RAID layout with plannable capacity, workload headroom, rebuild exposure, URE pressure, growth runway, charts, and JSON reports.

Estimate RAID MTTDL from AFR, rebuild time, URE rate, spares, correlation, and fleet size with loss probabilities and mitigation checks.

Plan RAID and RAID-Z usable capacity from layout, drive size, hot spares, fill headroom, chassis bays, and rebuild-risk assumptions.

Compare RPO/RTO targets with measured recovery evidence, flag data-loss or restore-time gaps, and estimate added change or downtime exposure.

Calculate RAID usable capacity from disk sizes, layout, spares, overhead, and reserves, with failure tolerance and rebuild-risk checks.

Estimate replication backlog catch-up time from write rate, outage duration, usable capacity, compression, target windows, and headroom warnings.

Build an S3 lifecycle policy with object filters, transition and expiration checks, review notes, and AWS-ready JSON or command output.

Calculate SSD endurance from DWPD or TBW, compare workload writes with reserve and derating, and use SMART wear clues to time replacement.

Estimate snapshot reserve capacity from dataset churn, retention, reduction ratio, headroom, and current reserve gaps, with stress and trend checks.

Estimate searchable syslog storage from EPS, event size, retention, compression, index overhead, stored copies, reserve, and disk headroom.

Convert TB, TiB, GB, and GiB through exact bytes, compare marketed drive labels with binary readouts, and write clear capacity notes.

Plan VM migration windows from memory, disk payload, dirty-page churn, bandwidth, and cutover targets with downtime risk checks.

Plan video storage from bitrate, duration, cameras, backups, and headroom, with drive counts, shoot warnings, and codec what-if checks.

Estimate VM datastore capacity from thin or thick disks, snapshots, swap, growth, reserves, raw protection, and runway timing.

Decode WWN or NAA values from SAN paths and logs, normalize the hex, flag fragments, and separate port, node, device, or LUN clues.

Plan ZFS usable capacity from vdev layout, disk size, RAID-Z padding, slop, reserves, and target-fit paths before buying drives.