Adverts in the Alerts?

[m0nkey_]

I don't mind self promotion, the banner ads around the forums are unobtrusive enough, but when I click though the alerts for posts I've replied or have mentions for, I don't expect to see an advertisement. I beg of the corporate overloads not to do this. Can stuff like this be posted in the Announcements or perhaps a 'iX Systems News' section of the forum?

 

[MatthewSteinhoff]

I found it obnoxious, too.

Cheers,
Matt

 

[DrKK]

Pretty poor form.

 

[Jeremy]

Howdy guys, this was my call. We only launch 1-2 products per year and this is one of my methods to get the word out. We will continue to do this every once in a while when deemed necessary.

Jeremy Quinn
Director of Digital Marketing
iXsystems.com

 

[DrKK]

Howdy guys, this was my call. We only launch 1-2 products per year and this is one of my methods to get the word out. We will continue to do this every once in a while when deemed necessary.

Jeremy Quinn
Director of Digital Marketing
iXsystems.com

Very well sir. I would recommend Twitter on the @ixsystems account, etc., we do a pretty good job of retweeting such things sir.

 

[m0nkey_]

Maybe we forum users are not the correct target audience? From what I can gather, most users of the forums typically have basement data centers (a "server" with a few hard drives in them). While there are some people out there implementing FreeNAS in a corporate environment, typically the more senior members of the forums would encourage them to contact iX Systems.

I agree with @DrKK, this announcement was probably better geared towards Twitter.

What I wouldn't mind is maybe announcements for FreeNAS updates, security advisories and alike. That would actually be more useful to me.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I'm guessing most active members are also on the mailing list, where this also showed up. Easily ignored I suppose, just a bit annoying.

 

[MatthewSteinhoff]

Howdy guys, this was my call. We only launch 1-2 products per year

Twice a year? You have my blessing. Was really afraid this was a new thing that would be happening often.

While I have you, @Robert Trevellyan, can you explain what "2.5x compression factor for Hybrid Arrays and 10x for All-Flash Arrays" means as shown on the 'tech specs' tab? How does moving to flash media improve the compression ratio?

Cheers,
Matt

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

can you explain what

I think you're confusing me with someone who works for iX.

 

[MatthewSteinhoff]

Sorry @Robert Trevellyan . I meant to hit @Jeremy. Doh!

Cheers,
Matt

 

[anodos]

It would be less obnoxious if they kept it to a simple link rather than a short novel.

 

[Arwen]

Twice a year? You have my blessing. Was really afraid this was a new thing that would be happening often.
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Agreed. I can live with twice or so a year. It was just confusing me, (but then again some say I confuse easily :).

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While I have you, @Robert Trevellyan, can you explain what "2.5x compression factor for Hybrid Arrays and 10x for All-Flash Arrays" means as shown on the 'tech specs' tab? How does moving to flash media improve the compression ratio?

Cheers,
Matt

I am guessing that 2.5x would be the normal dataset compression ratio. But with an All-Flash Array,
they implement de-duplication. In some ways RAM requirements for the ARC are less with an All-Flash
Array since it's not that slow to read the flash disks. So instead of a huge ARC, they can use more of the
RAM for de-duplication tables.

 

[Ericloewe]

Twice a year? You have my blessing. Was really afraid this was a new thing that would be happening often.

While I have you, @Robert Trevellyan, can you explain what "2.5x compression factor for Hybrid Arrays and 10x for All-Flash Arrays" means as shown on the 'tech specs' tab? How does moving to flash media improve the compression ratio?

Cheers,
Matt

I'll venture a guess that it's "We need to assume a 10x compression ratio to be able to say that we offer X amount of storage for Y amount of cash, which sounds totally awesome in ads".