Competitors for Exablox
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Looks like we are going ahead with a trial of the Exablox, once we have it and I've beaten on it I will post more thoughts.
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@MattSpeller Awesome, looking forward to seeing some real world feedback on it.
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@MattSpeller Good to hear.
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Very cool, those look like really neat units.
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@Reid-Cooper I agree, they are sweet.
My primary concern is from a cost perspective I don't think they make any sense for our environment.
Another concern is I really*** really*** like new toys and I might loose some perspective with all the freaking cool things you can do with them.
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@MattSpeller I get you...since you started the thread I am still trying to get my head around the cost.
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@technobabble It seems that (rough numbers) it's $10k for one, or around $7k (each) if you're getting 3 or more. Now, remember, that does NOT include drives. You have to purchase all the drives and populate them (ok, slapping them in is trivial...)
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@MattSpeller seems pricey to me but my clients are much smaller and have less data storage needs, so this product would not be a fit anyway.
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@technobabble lol that's almost word for word my summary of exablox to my boss. We may just be too small to see the cost/benefit, though my hope is that it saves us a lot of man hours in IT. (ironically woman hours, I am the only guy in the department of 3)
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@MattSpeller now that is funny!
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@MattSpeller said:
@technobabble lol that's almost word for word my summary of exablox to my boss. We may just be too small to see the cost/benefit, though my hope is that it saves us a lot of man hours in IT. (ironically woman hours, I am the only guy in the department of 3)
Mostly women here too.
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Well, I have two units arrived now and setup. What tests would you like to see done to these?
I have the usual array of I/O testing programs* lined up & 1TB of hot fresh and nasty user data being dumped onto them.
*Solarwinds permissions view
ATTO Disk Benchmark
IO Zone
Intel NAS Performance Toolkit
