Re: SSD Analyzer Tool

for what i have seen, that is not the spirit of the power platform,
you dont have access to such low level information. Either the disk
works or it doesnt. The same with the normal hdds, you dont have
access AFAIK to smart or pfa, you depend on the lic to tell you that
it works or not.

I understand that it makes maintenance a lot easier, but for people
that like to know all the stats, it's not so good...

Roberto

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's what I don't understand.  Rob says he replaced a drive because it
reported FAILED.  I didn't get the sense that there were any warnings,
it just fell over.  Now, if the whole idea on these drives is that they
have a bunch of extra space that they use to replace failed blocks,
wouldn't it make sense that:

A. You would have a way to see the amount of "extra" space remaining on
a drive.

B. The drive would warn you as it was losing it's extra space.  Say send
a message to the system operator when a drive uses 50% of it's spare
storage, then another at 75%, 90% and every 1% after that.

I'm not a hardware guy, but that would make sense, wouldn't it?

Joe

Joe,

I know there's been A LOT of people leaving the midrange ranks over the
years, but my more than ample gutt tells me that the problems of the 9335(?)
drives failure rates is still a stink that IBM works hard to avoid in any
"disk" technology it releases...

DR2

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