I agree with Jeff here
He wants to colocate a SuperMicro 45-disk shelf eventually. I could buy a popular NetApp DS4246 with a FAS controller instead of IOM, real cheap. That’s usually a boon, a filer not just shelf, but for me it was a bummer, got me scared of complexities running Ontap. Also in the end I didn’t really want to scale so much outright.
Everyone’s trying to sell their spare plotting power now and no one as of yet offered farming solutions. This has to happen, there’s more need for it I think. With membership fee especially easy sell to people who would otherwise buy many drives only to fill them one by one over many days, and to people who wouldn’t want to expand to many drives otherwise! So basically everyone.
Would this membership fee model cover for too much success i.e. members flowing in who then want a new drive every other day and don’t stop?