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Re: Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

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Post by sergiotapia »

tehnub wrote: post #4

Is this a rebrand? I don’t remember it being called a “cloud computer”. (Or why else is this on HN?)

I agree. I remember Oxide was a balls-to-wall hardcore server "rack" soup to nuts baked by Oxide so they could provide exceptional performance and software stack. This "cloud" thing is new.

Re: Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

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Post by wmf »

andrewstuart wrote: post #19
wpm wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You were gonna drop $2.5M on one of these racks?

On Visa card.

You joke but apparently a lot of startups are putting their cloud bill on a credit card for the points. Sometimes even a personal card.

Re: Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

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Post by CamperBob2 »

athorax wrote: post #10
lopkeny12ko wrote: post #5

> Get In Touch > Contact Sales Nope, hard pass. If you don't list your prices on your website I'm never going to be a customer.

You were never their target audience. There is never one price off the shelf pricing for this kind of hardware

That's what they told Michael Dell, too.

Re: Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

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Post by bnprks »

amluto wrote: post #48
bnprks wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure you're comparing equivalent memory and storage specs? I needed to go into the customization menus in the Dell configurator to spec something equivalent, where prices started going up quite rapidly. For example "3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier" is $3,301.65 each, and you'd need 10 of those to match the Oxide storage spec -- already above the $30k total price you quoted. Simi…

> For example "3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier" is $3,301.65 each That’s the pricing for people who don’t know to ask for real pricing — it’s an absolute joke. I don’t know how might extra margin gets captured here, but it’s a lot. Even in teeny tiny volumes, Dell will give something closer to real pricing, and a decent heuristic is that it’s at least 2x cheaper. This is a real SSD. Del…

Thanks for the link, and very good to know. I've always struggled to find component prices for Kioxia drives and higher-capacity RAM sticks so it's good to see I can finally look these up on serversupply when I'm curious.

Re: Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

#58

Post by rickette »

wmf wrote: post #56
andrewstuart wrote: post #18

I’m curious to know if this is a good business model. Is the a market for these?

Yeah, private cloud racks are an established market. Nutanix, VxRack, UCS, etc.

Also Oracle Exalogic (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Exalogic)

Re: Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

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Post by seabird »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #5

> Get In Touch > Contact Sales Nope, hard pass. If you don't list your prices on your website I'm never going to be a customer.

That's great as far as they're concerned. This is a seven digit purchase with a lot of moving parts. They need to know that you can actually pay them and you need to get an opportunity for your lawyers to grill them and get them on the hook for as much as possible. The big leagues aren't for everybody.

Re: Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud

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Post by 1123581321 »

amluto wrote: post #48
bnprks wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure you're comparing equivalent memory and storage specs? I needed to go into the customization menus in the Dell configurator to spec something equivalent, where prices started going up quite rapidly. For example "3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier" is $3,301.65 each, and you'd need 10 of those to match the Oxide storage spec -- already above the $30k total price you quoted. Simi…

> For example "3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 Gen4 with carrier" is $3,301.65 each That’s the pricing for people who don’t know to ask for real pricing — it’s an absolute joke. I don’t know how might extra margin gets captured here, but it’s a lot. Even in teeny tiny volumes, Dell will give something closer to real pricing, and a decent heuristic is that it’s at least 2x cheaper. This is a real SSD. Del…

Doesn’t Oxide also negotiate pricing?
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