Exablox OneBlox 4312 Enterprise NAS Review

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Exablox's OneBlox 4312 packs the goodness of object storage wrapped in the industry-standard SMB/NFS interface, and at a competitive price point.

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[artk2219]

It looks like its just a SuperMicro NAS with a different name.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/826/SC826BE16-R920LP.cfm

 

[shadycuz]

It looks like its just a SuperMicro NAS with a different name.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/826/SC826BE16-R920LP.cfm

I'm guessing it's the same chassis but with the exablox os/software

 

[Haravikk]

I never like how wasteful these units are for storage capacity; hot-swap bays at the front are fine, but I much prefer storage units like Chenbro RM43260; it takes 60 hot-swap drives loading from the top, just hook it up to a 1U server with ReadyNAS and a few SSDs for ZFS caching and you can have a huge, high-performance SMB or NFS server fairly cheaply in 5U's, rather than an anaemic 12-bay system in 3U.

I suppose if you only have 3U then you don't have much of a choice, but that's usually not the case.