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Yes, I have done several upgrades to the new series and they are all wonderful. 270 -> 810 3x improvement 270 -> 825 partition (sized same CPW) 2x improvement --- Doug Hart midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > For those sitting on the fence about a system upgrade, GO FOR IT! > > We completed our conversion from a pair of model 640s to a pair of > 825s the weekend after Thanksgiving. Conversion was reasonably > straight forward (although we wrote our own book). > > The speed of the 6-year newer machines and disks is -very- > impressive-- one job that used to take 20-24 hours to run ran in > 3-1/2 hours! WHOOO-HOOOO!! > > Users are complaining they can no longer submit a job and then go for > coffee-- their jobs are finished before they can roll back their > chairs! (: > > I'm afraid users will be submitting jobs more than once-- "It > -always- takes 30 minutes to run. It finished too soon. Something > must be wrong!" > > Our next project (after the old machines are rolled out of the room) > will be the cable removal party under the floor-- all those twinax, > v.35, rs232, and other cables. Maybe I can find the screwdriver > blade I lost 6 or 7 years ago. (: If you have any need for v.35 or > rs232 cables, let me know! > > --Paul E Musselman > PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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