E-discovery pricing is commonly expressed per gigabyte for processing and per gigabyte per month for hosting, with review priced separately per hour or per document.
A gigabyte of email corresponds to a wide range of document counts depending on file types.
Alternative Names:
Per-GB Cost, Gigabyte Pricing
Why it Matters?
Per-gigabyte figures mislead when used alone, because a gigabyte of email contains far more documents than a gigabyte of scanned images or media files, and review cost tracks document count rather than volume. Budgets built on gigabyte estimates without document count assumptions are frequently wrong by a large multiple. Monthly hosting is also the component most often underestimated, since it accrues for the life of the matter.
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Why is cost per gigabyte misleading alone?
Which cost component is most underestimated?
