RE: Raid to Mirror comparison

I think that's what I said Paul !    :-)


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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   PaulMmn [SMTP:PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com]
        Sent:   Monday, January 19, 1998 9:18 PM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        RE: Raid to Mirror comparison

        >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
        >12GB 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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