@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...)

@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.

Tired and stressed out looking at the list of things to fix over the holidays. Time to go home and rest up, it's going to be one heck of a few weeks.

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.

Don't forget when you've got a close estimate for your total requirements, find a power supply to ~130%. This will keep it in the most efficient zone and give you room to expand.

Example only, find the specs of your individual unit. If they're unpublished, you may wish to reconsider your choice.

Some of you have an unbelievable amount of stuff!

@nadnerB I'm fortunate to live where power is exceptionally inexpensive & that (turning it off) is always a good idea!

Reference material, page 6 - while not the cheapest here (near Vancouver on the map), sub 10c/kwh is pretty good.
http://www.hydroquebec.com/publications/en/comparison_prices/pdf/comp_2014_en.pdf

@JaredBusch The laptops I refurb and buy an adapter, then donate to good causes. Tis the season!

@thegillion Work auction at a company (Canadian Sports Institute) with very few IT staff and even fewer people interested in computers. If it had included workout gear or fitness stuff the opposite would have happened.

It's not a contest lol but yes I get it. Primarily for gaming and VM based learnings:

39" 4k with 24" secondary

AMD8320 @ 4.4ghz
8gb
256 samsung840
2x2tb

Soon to add (some are presents but #48 will be my new nas with new hdds)

Hi Matt,

I’m pleased to announce that you had the highest bids for the following items:

2. Bid: $5.00
   Model: Dell Latitude D630
   Service Tag:
   CPU: C2D T9300 2.5ghz
   RAM: 2gb
   Hard Drive: 120gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed.

3. Bid: $5.00
   Model: Dell Latitude D830
   Service Tag:
   CPU: C2D T7500 2.2ghz
   RAM: 2gb
   Hard Drive: 80gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed.

4. Bid: $5.00
   Model: Dell Latitude XT2
   Service Tag:
   CPU: Centrino 2 U9600 1.6ghz
   RAM: 3gb
   Hard Drive: 80gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Includes stylus. Dock is broken open along the top seam will still dock but requires some finess to sit in properly.

5. Bid: $1.00
   Model: Dell Precision M90
   Service Tag:
   CPU: Centrino 2 T7400 2.16ghz
   RAM: 4gb
   Hard Drive: 150gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Requires 130w adapter to even power on

6. Bid: $1.00
   Model: Dell Latitude D410
   Service Tag:
   CPU: Centrino
   RAM: 2gb
   Hard Drive: 60gb
   Notes: NO power adapter. NO Operative System installed. Battery Failing.

7. Bid: $1.00
   Blackberry Playbook 16gb
   2 cases, wall style charger

8. Bid: $1.00
   Motion Computing Tablet LS800
   Includes stylus, case and charger; only works with Windows XP
   Intel Centrino 1.2ghz 1gb 30gb

9. Bid: $1.00
   Computer power supply
   450w generic computer power supply (new)

10. Bid: $1.00
    Computer power supply
    300w micro ATX generic computer power supply (new)

11. Bid: $1.00
    USB charger
    300w micro ATX generic computer power supply (new)

12. Bid: $1.00
    Computer power supply
    550w generic computer power supply (new)

42: Bid: $1.00
Garmin GPS
Garmin Nuvi GPS (includes car charger, window suction cup)

48: Bid: $11.00
Dell Power Edge Server (tower style)
Intel Xeon 2 core
4x 250gb HDD
2x 1Gb NIC card
eSATA card
Optical drive (unknown if CD or DVD)

49: Bid: $1.00
A selection of new and used IDE and SATA drives, most are DVD-RW.
Highest bid gets first choice.

Please let me know if you are still interesting in acquiring it (Total $37.00), and if so, please make a cheque for “Canadian Sport Institute” for the total amount and give it to me.

Regards,

Yeah you "win", that is crazy huge

@Minion-Queen said:

Yes it will be a webinar but specifically for all of MS Butt partners.

Yes it will be a webinar but specifically for all of MS Butt partners.

I'm still not tired of this chrome plugin heheh

That's going to be a mess

Morning Joy

You might get a used one for a bit less. It would be slower but you'd get a better quality of build.

i5 and 4gb for $400 is hard to go wrong.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

You would be able to use this as a VMWare/Xen backend at that point? Although not sure about the speed of the unit for virtual workloads.

With NFS yes, in theory, VMware and Xen would be able to use Exablox as primary storage. People do this today with other scale out storage, like Gluster. My guess is that once they have NFS it will work just fine. Might not be the absolute fastest solution, but for general workloads probably very adequate. Will be interesting to test.

That would be interesting indeed!

@scottalanmiller said:

@SeanExablox said:

Hi MattSpeller, I'm Sean (Sr. Director, Product Management @Exablox).

Hey Sean! Great to see you here. Great to see vendors actively watching the threads.

I'll second that, I almost choked on my coffee when you replied! I have meetings this afternoon but I"ll be watching this space and reading up on your product. Thank you very much for dropping in!

I clearly have a lot more reading and learning to do about these things.

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattSpeller said:

When you insert a new drive it claims to give you 100% (or close) to that space, do they reclaim that with their internal de-dupe?

I don't know how the space allocation and display work, I'm not sure how they are showing it.

They show it's 1:1 - put in a 2tb drive, get 2tb more space. Creeps me out! I chalk it up to not understanding OBS and how their setup works internally