RE: model 270

I said the same thing, I paid just a hair under 200 a piece for six drives, 
17gb 10k........


On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:24:32 -0600, Haase, Justin C. wrote
> 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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If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.