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  3. June 2004

Re: External disk for iSeries

I agree with Rob on these problems that happen, and then the "hidden" costs that people sometimes forget about. Remember its not the acquisition cost of the disk, its the total cost of managing, administering, headaches, and worries that you need to factor in when you purchase disks.

I have seen people save a few hundred dollars on things like this, and it winds up costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars in downtime and lost productivity.

Last thing I want to worry about on an upgrade is if V5R3 (or any release) is going to support my third party disks.

   JMHO,

       Pete Massiello

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

YEARS ago we used third party disk. We had problems every time we upgraded OS, etc. We finally got rid of them. When they tried to get back in here they made real a$$holes out of themselves by threatening to go to the CEO and tell them we were wasting money, etc.

I like to see a little competition to keep IBM honest. But I think the competition is coming a little in the fact that, with the dawn of unix ap's on the i5, that particular crowd won't goosestep to the line that this particular disk needs to cost scads more.

And I wonder if the possibility of using 'cheaper' disk is a valid reason to delve into IASP's. Last I knew there is third party internal disk so what extra does third party external disk bring to the party?

Rob Berendt






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