@nadnerB said:

Going by your Experience, I'll look into Exablox when I'm looking for a new backup target 🙂
Granted it won't be for a while but they are "on the list" of potential candidates 🙂

@nadnerB, happy to hear we're on your shortlist! When you're ready just let us know.
www.exablox.com or [email protected]

@Dashrender said:

While you might not have a drive fail, there are so many other factors that could, this definitely seems like the wrong approach.

No kidding. This is so completely the wrong approach. Five nines? That's nothing in storage. Lots of providers provide that today out of the box. It's just the drive replacement piece that needs to be automated and honestly, that's trivial.

Well, we use System Center Config Manager ad we slip in drivers, patches and Domain join

@MattSpeller said:

@lance Looks sweet man, but I promised myself long ago - no more non-standard keyboard layouts. Goes double for laptops; give me a proper keyboard layout or give me death!

Same here, has to be a standard keyboard. Except for replacing the caps lock. Make that a Sun-style control button!!

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

That's a whole new type of thrashing!

I just saw this. Sorry. Do you still have questions? I am guessing not.

@Minion-Queen said:

@BMarie I would be happy to take a look at it.

Thanks, where should I send it?