RE: External disk for iSeries

["Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM drive? Yes.  3580s, for example.
Cost more than an equipped 520? No.  Although depending on your usage,
you may opt for a traditional SCSI-attach instead of fiber. 

BTW, on my 730, saving to the Ultrium2s is faster than using SAVFs.
However, I am constrained by the SPD bus so I can easily see it going
the other way on PCI-X equipped boxes.

John A. Jones
Americas Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 2:08 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: External disk for iSeries

> Look into the new fiber-attached Ultrium 2 tape drives.  If you're on 
> an 8XX box or later, the transfer rate is probably faster than moving 
> it to another server.  Each tape cartridge holds 200GB of data 
> uncompressed, 400 GB with compression.

Is this Ultrium 2 an IBM drive?  I've had my experiences with non-IBM
tape drives and don't want to go there again.

We have an iSeries 270 and will probably replace with an i5 520 within a
year.  Will this superfast tape drive cost more than the entire system?
<g>

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