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And speaking of virii, wasn't it the "I Love You" virus that ran through all your mapped drives and overwrote all of the image files it found with copies of itself? Regards, Scott Ingvaldson iSeries System Administrator GuideOne Insurance Group -----Original Message----- date: Fri, 27 May 2005 11:50:08 -0500 from: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> subject: RE: Help me Justify iSeries You make good points, John. And certainly with IBM moving towards larger drives, the price point is moving. I'm still a little unsure of some of your points; if you have no AV and no backups in your network, that means you have no Windows machines at all. That's an unusual configuration. But the point is still that you have to take everything into account. To properly assess the situation, you have to address all of the following variables, as they apply: percentage of static storage to dynamics storage, existing network infrastructure, application type, disaster recovery, availability requirements, and so on. The answer is different in a shop with lots of available space on their iSeries and no Windows machines than in a shop with a small maxed iSeries running email on a Windows server. Joe > From: Jones, John (US) > > Granted, Joe, I'm optimizing some. But my point was the opportunity > cost of storing that many images. I actually buy the biggest & fastest > disks available so my current i5 uses 70GB 15Ks and my new one will use > the 140GB 15Ks. But even one of those 140GB 15K drives is under $5K > list and there ar no administrative or maintenance costs, ever. As long > as you've got the disk slot open it's an easy install and integrates > with everything you're already running. Your backups don't change, you > still don't need AV software, your rack space doesn't grow, your power > requirements don't really grow, your KVM requirements don't grow, etc.
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