What is my company's data worth?
Headcount and years, not terabytes. A twenty person agency with nine years of work outprices a distributor holding a hundred times the storage. What is being priced is how many people made the record, and for how long.
Volume is close to noise
It is the first number every seller reaches for and the last one a buyer looks at. A quarter of a terabyte out of a working office outprices tens of terabytes of backups, video and duplicated shares. Lead with headcount and the year your oldest records start.
What moves the number up
A wound down business whose whole corpus is available and whose rights are clean. Professional services where the work product is the asset: law, accounting, consulting, engineering, agencies, insurance, asset management. Operating complexity across several systems rather than one. A whole company drive rather than one export out of one system.
What moves it down
A partial drive. One ERP export on its own is the hardest thing in this market to place and it has not been clearing. Healthcare of any kind. Records you cannot show you own. Under three years, which most buyers refuse before they look.
How to get a real number
The estimator on the front page takes four answers and gives a range in about a minute. The range is indicative and it is not an offer. A number anybody will stand behind comes after an inventory, because nobody sensible prices a corpus they have not seen.