RE: Raid to Mirror comparison

["Walden Leverich" <walden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The off-road comment may not be that far from the truth. I recall reading
that the Marines refer to the AS/400 as "The Brick" because it won't crash,
even when they do take it off road!

-Walden

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net
> [mailto:mcsnet!midrange.com!midrange-l-owner@Mcs.Net]On Behalf Of Neil
> Palmer
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 1998 7:31 PM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Raid to Mirror comparison
>
>
> Yeah - it was a typo.  I meant to say you would have 12GB available with
> the 4 x 4 option (you also get off-road capability as a bonus).  :-)
>
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>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Walden Leverich [SMTP:walden@techsoftinc.com]
>       Sent:   Monday, January 19, 1998 5:24 PM
>       To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>       Subject:        RE: Raid to Mirror comparison
>
>       OK, I'll bite. If I have 4 4Gig drives I have 16Gig total. But
> won't I have
>       to eat one of those drives as overhead. Looks like you accounted
> for it in
>       the 8.5Gig drives, but not the 4Gig drives. Was this simply a
> mistake, or is
>       there something about the 4Gig jobbers I am missing?
>
>       -Walden
>
>
>       Sent: Friday, January 16, 1998 8:22 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
>       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.
>
>       ... Neil Palmer
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