Storage (Exablox)

[brookjm]

Hello,

 

One of our suppliers is very keen to provide us with a 30 day trial of an 'Exablox' (https://www.exablox.com/) device. Essentially is is 48TB of drives (and 36GB of useful storage) and some clever software to mean that anything that is stored on it is also backed up (on at least two other drives). For the amount of storage it is a very good price.

 

I was wondering if anyone had any experience of these products?

 

Thanks in anticipation.

 

Jon

[Arthur]

No personal experience, but I did come across the following review the other day while looking at backup appliances.

 

www.storagereview.com/exablox_oneblox_appliance_review

 

Pros

• Entry-priced object-store that presents itself as a NAS to applications
  
• Offers deduplication and continuous data protection
  
• 'Bring Your Own Drive' functionality to mix and match HDDs
  
• Easy to administer and to scale within the appliance, within a ring and within a OneBlox mesh
  

Cons

• Slow read and write performance
  
• Long backup and recovery windows when used as a backup target
  
• Support for virtualized environments only as a disk target for backup
  

The Bottom Line

The Exablox OneBlox is easy to deploy, manage, and scale as part of a solution that helps ensure that backup and replication services, but falls short when performance is key to the buying decision.

 

Did you end up trialing it? If so, was it any good?

Edited December 23, 2015 by elsiegee40

[brookjm]

We took delivery of it before Christmas and we're getting it up and running this week. Is there anything specific you want to know?