What is the initial cost to setup their smallest system on prem?

Not finding a ton of information about it, was curious about it too. But the "smallest system" seems huge, like 16 sleds and a HN comment from 2023 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498840) says:

> An oxide rack has a minimum cost of something like 600k not including all the infra you need to run a rack, maintenance, and then needing to upgrade

So maybe not super useful for people who are looking to do some home-lab stuff or even setups for SMBs.

Edit: Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552556

> My guess is that a base config would be somewhere between $400K to $500K but could very definitely go up from there for a completely "loaded" config.

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axus 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Meanwhile in VMWare-land, you might pay that much in subscription fees with no hardware. https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/1h8brs2/i_literally...

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bix6 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow so really for F500 and such

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steveklabnik 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's much broader than that, but you're right that we make sense for larger organizations, not smaller ones.

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klooney 2 days ago | parent [-]

Any plans to launch a desk sized version built from Raspberry Pis?

	▲	steveklabnik 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That would be pretty cool, honestly. I've seen some racks for pi's before, haha. But no plans to get into consumer stuff directly any time soon, sadly.

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sailfast 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Government.

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vhodges 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you have to ask.... :)

(other people's) previous guesstimates were 500k - 1M. It does look like you can order it partially provisioned (compute wise I'm guessing) and expand later.

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mijoharas 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I googled this out of curiousity a little while ago, it seemed to be 600k or so. (possibly dubious source so ymmv) [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498840

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sudomateo 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

We're working on publishing an updating pricing page to better communicate this to the public. Stay tuned!

Here's what I can knowingly share. We sell full-rack and half-rack SKUs today coming in at 1024/16TiB and 2048/32TiB of CPU cores and RAM respectively. Disk varies depending on the drive size. On top of the cost of the rack you'll pay an annual percentage for support and that's it. No software licensing or other weird fees.