Re: DASD failure

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

At 10:33 PM 7/16/98 -0400, you 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.  (:

 While 35,000 *seems* to be a really high number I think that's a terrible
showing, considering that the MTBF is supposed to be over 100,000 hours!!
(Correct me if that number is wrong.)

 -mark

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