NAS refresh decisions now hinge on recovery time
DRAM, NAND, and HDD are all heading into a price-up cycle. Capex approval is shifting from boxes and specs to migration, backups, and data retrieval. Where can print firms still keep gross margin?
Forecasts now call for sharp, short-term jumps in contract prices for DRAM and NAND. Meanwhile even HDDs are being talked about as “fully allocated,” and the assumption is hardening that you may not be able to secure the capacity you need when you need it. For printing companies’ DX spend, the boardroom split is no longer “do we buy a NAS,” but “can we get our data back—fast enough?”
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In the morning, the inspection images won’t open. You can’t trace the reprint history. A last-minute address-data swap stops cold.
In that moment, the problem isn’t “we’re short on storage capacity.” The loss is determined by how many hours it takes to recover. The impact changes depending on what stops—inspection, the RIP, or the inserter’s work instructions—but the common point is that slow recovery shaves revenue and credibility.…
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