Re: Explaing the difference in PC vs AS/400 disk... $$$$$$ -- MIDRANGE-L

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Rich Loesch (MIS) wrote:
> 
>  There is not much difference in the disk drives themselves, so the
> Escort to Infinity comparison is not dead on. The controller is different
> but not enough to make up the price difference. IBM needs to realize this
> before the loose more customers to the likes of EMC.

Not too much chance of that - unless you are good cutomer for EMC's
Symetrix DASD at a minimum of about $500,000.  They pretty much dropped
out of the midrange market.  Of course there are still vendors like IPL,
but IBM DASD seems the best bet, IMHO.

Jeff Carey
FORMER EMC customer!
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