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    • lanceL
      lance @MattSpeller
      last edited by lance

      @MattSpeller Good to hear.

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      • Reid CooperR
        Reid Cooper
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        Very cool, those look like really neat units.

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        • MattSpellerM
          MattSpeller @Reid Cooper
          last edited by MattSpeller

          @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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            technobabble @MattSpeller
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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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            • MattSpellerM
              MattSpeller @technobabble
              last edited by MattSpeller

              @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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                technobabble @MattSpeller
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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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                • MattSpellerM
                  MattSpeller @technobabble
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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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                    technobabble @MattSpeller
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                    @MattSpeller now that is funny!

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
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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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                      • MattSpellerM
                        MattSpeller
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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

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