RE: Raid to Mirror comparison

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Will this be a new AS/400 or are they looking to install on an existing
>box ?
>What approx. disk capacity do they have (MB).
>With the new model 6xx and Sxx series you can RAID-5 the base (Load
>source) disks, so you could install four 4GB or 8.5GB drives and have
>16GB or 25.5GB usable disk with RAID-5.
>With older systems mirroring was often cheaper because you had to mirror
>the load source drive.


Once release 3.1.0 came out you could =mix= protection types in the same
ASP, so you could mirror the load source and have everything else RAID and
only have a single ASP.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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