RE: EMC Drives

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We've had bad luck with EMC drives as well.  All I remember hearing is:
"company a lost 4 drives today... EMC of course."

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gibbs [SMTP:david@midrange.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 2:28 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: EMC Drives
> 
> >     My parent company is considering purchasing EMC drives for their new
> 7XX 
> > AS/400.  They will be purchasing almost a terabyte of DASD.  Does anyone
> 
> > have any thoughts as to why they should or shouldn't do this.  Thanks in
> 
> > advance for any assistance.
> 
> Eric:
> 
> I had a *VERY* bad experience with EMC drives on a F35->510 upgrade about
> 2 1/2 years ago.  EMC's support was absymal and we were down, COLD, for
> a full week.
> 
> I *HIGHLY* recommend against EMC.
> 
> IBM came through for us in the clutch and provided priority 1 support 
> (including having a VLIC programmer dialed in to our system) and got
> us up (with almost half our normal disk capacity, as the EMC drives 
> were identified at fault).
> 
> I'll be happy to give you the gorey details privately, if you wish... most
> everyone here has heard my rants on EMC before.
> 
> david
> 
> p.s. I thought EMC got out of the Midrange dasd market.
> 
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