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.