RE: iSeries Disk Pricing

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Everybody keeps chanting the arms mantra as if a bank of original 10mb IBM
PC hard drives would out perform a 8gb iSeries drive.  I argue that if
they keep improving all of the other performance metrics of drives then
you may not need as many arms for the same amount of data.

Rob Berendt
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Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
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>I needed the arms more than the capacity.

Exactly right.  Once (if?) we sell a 200gig upgrade to a customer
currently
using 16gigs (to keep the arm count) we'll never sell another disk.
  --buck
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