AetherStore
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At SpiceWorld we met a new vendor who is showing off their technology for turning wasted (aka unused) space on desktop hard drives into usable NAS space on the network.
Really interesting looking product. Have no had a chance to play with it yet but definitely one to watch. Should have more time to talk to them today.
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Should point out that AetherStore came out and hung with us at all of the events last night and even bought a round of the Flaming Dr. Peppers at the first after party! They are already grokking the community effect.
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@scottalanmiller It is a neat product. I helped test an early version (couldn't get it to work in my setup fully). Still have my coffee mug from them.
Definately something for the SMB that needs quick storage but doesn't have the funds for a good NAS.
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Looks pretty neat. I talked to them a bit about where it is today and where it is going and gave them some feedback on what I would like to see.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Looks pretty neat. I talked to them a bit about where it is today and where it is going and gave them some feedback on what I would like to see.
I just did the same thing regarding recommendations. This is a very interesting product for the SMB space. For the price of a really basic NAS ($449) you can get a potentially huge amount of storage available.
I would not want to use it for live file storage, but as a target for Veeam backups, this could be a great solution.
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Cool idea, cool bunch of guys, now that I'm home and have time, I want to learn more about the product. I would say that Aetherstore made one of the best showings at the conference and parties and having the co-founders and developers there to answer questions and explain the concept was an excellent idea.
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Ætherstore definitely rocked the show with the strongest showing with the core Spiceheads. They were the only vendor as involved with the real community and they sponsored the record setting Flaming Dr. Pepper show too!
Well done guys.
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Neat concept. No idea how well that would work in reality though.
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We are planning on testing it out soon.
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Looks like an amazing product! Really great guys!
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This one stuck out as well for me. I'm going to look into trying this out.
For that matter, I could see this offloading some non-critical IT-related stuff (ISO's, etc.) across a bunch of our LAN computers to recoup some server space. Looks very cool indeed.
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@Rob-Dunn said:
This one stuck out as well for me. I'm going to look into trying this out.
For that matter, I could see this offloading some non-critical IT-related stuff (ISO's, etc.) across a bunch of our LAN computers to recoup some server space. Looks very cool indeed.
Their high end price point for 100 computer is only $449 if I recall the paperwork correctly. The new WD My Cloud EX4 is like $349 without any disks. By the time you add four drives, you will be way over the AetherStore costs.
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A big factor is what drives you have in your machines. If you have lots of large drives in your desktops you can get a lot of storage for a very low price.
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The trend of moving toward small SSDs kinda kills this.
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@Dashrender said:
The trend of moving toward small SSDs kinda kills this.
This is definitely a network by network decision because of things like that.
My clients all get standard Dell/HP boxes with the default drive. This is almost 100% of the time a 500GB drive right now.
On top of that, I have their user libraries redirected to the server. This leaves me with a LOT of space available for something like AetherStore at these clients.
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Re: Feedback
THe one thing I told them that would help sell it would be to have some tool a potential customer could run that would tell them how much potential space there is available.For someone using SpiceWorks, I suggested a free app in the new SW app space that would simply check the SW database and report drive free space amounts.
For others, a WMI tool to just scan the network quickly may be the best option.
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@Dashrender said:
The trend of moving toward small SSDs kinda kills this.
That's very true, NTG is all SSD for example. Chromebooks would kill this too. But that's a temporary thing. As SSDs grow in size the opportunity will return.
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Yeah, I mean I don't see this becoming main stream storage or anything. I honestly wouldn't use it for anything but "replaceables" software installers, etc.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Yeah, I mean I don't see this becoming main stream storage or anything. I honestly wouldn't use it for anything but "replaceables" software installers, etc.
For me, this is a replacement to a local NAS at clients. Said NAS would be the primary local backup target. More storage for the same cost, only used hit and miss during the day, and long writes in the evening.
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@JaredBusch said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Yeah, I mean I don't see this becoming main stream storage or anything. I honestly wouldn't use it for anything but "replaceables" software installers, etc.
For me, this is a replacement to a local NAS at clients. Said NAS would be the primary local backup target. More storage for the same cost, only used hit and miss during the day, and long writes in the evening.
That is really the primary use case. A local NAS for the desktop users in a local office space.
