Patent attributes
A system can determine to produce a storage device for a user identity indicative of a user. The system can determine a number of extra disks to include with the storage device as part of the production, the extra disks enabling further storage capacity for the storage device beyond a specified storage capacity, the determining of the number of extra disks being based on data from a group of data, the group of data comprising first cost data representative of a first cost associated with including the second number of extra disks, probability data representative of a probability that the further storage capacity beyond the specified storage capacity will be requested during a defined time period after the production, and second cost data representative of a second cost associated with installing the second number of extra disks after the storage device has been delivered to the user site.