RE: model 270

And what used vendor is quoting you $750 for 17 gig?  That's a bit
steep.

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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5
Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:11 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: model 270

<snip>
OK, not fair.  How about a similarly sized Maxtor 18GB Ultra-320 SCSI
15K for $75, or $4.16/GB.  New.
</snip>

Unfortunately your comparison is apple/oranges.  If you compare drives
from those same manufacturers that are rated for the same MTBF and
service type, you may have an argument, however the drives you site are
not manufactured  with the same tolerances.  We have had this discussion
before. The drives you site in the comparisons are not equivalent drives
from those manufacturers to the ones IBM uses in its enterprise class
servers (z, p, & i) .  Even Hitachi who manufactures a very high
percentage of the drives for IBM has two models in the 17 gig variety.
One for real server usage (i, p, & z) , and the other for the consumer
market and folks that do the very comparison that you just did. 

Sorry if I just won't bite on that argument.

Jim
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