Re: DASD failure

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Denis wrote:
>
>Our company has about 40 AS/400 in north america. The machines are betwen
>1 and 4 years old. In the last 6 months, we had to replace 5 disk due to
>failure (crashed). To me this number of crash seems High but IBM told us
>this was noting out of the ordinary.
>
>I dont have the number but i tought that the mean time between failure of
>the AS/400 was much greater.


1 year at 24 x 7 is over 8,700 hours...  4 years gives you almost 35,000
hours of service...   Sounds like it's time for an oil change.  (:

I hope you're running RAID or mirroring!

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


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