Competitors for Exablox
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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



