Re: OEM Disk Drives-hardware commodity

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

to add to my previous post - this does not sound like all hardware is a
commodity.

Subject: Re: OEM Disk Drives
> Steve,
> Face them and back away slowly, do not let them out of your sight (or
> into your site!)
> Within the last 6 months we have had two customers purchase these
> against our recommendations and both have had problems. One STILL has
> performance issues and CPF messages being issued despite the drive being
> replaced twice.  The other had to get 10 drives in before we could get 4
> to spin up at once!!! (He could NOT have slept well this weekend with
> 60+MPH wind gusts here)
>
> PLUS you gotta sign a document and send it to IBM that you have NON-IBM
> stuff in your box and in it promise to remove the non-IBM stuff should
> IBM think it the cause of a failure.  Add to this that you pay IBM for
> maintenance on the machine by Drive Cage (so your maintenance goes up)
> but you GET maintenance from the drive vendor (which MAY be IBM but not
> on Your contract) which means you have to call THEM and THEY call IBM.
>
> Sure the vendors tell you that these are really IBM drives so whats the
> difference? They DON't have IBM Microcode. You CANNOT send PTFs to these
> drives. You MUST check with the vendor before EVERY OS/400 AND PTF load
> because if they haven't tested them (see customer 'A' above) you might
> have problems possibly as severe as drives that disappear.
>
> I cannot think of a valid argument for putting these into my system.
>
>  my .02
>
>   - Larry
>
> now if you wanna go back a year or two I got some REAL horror
> stories.....
> Steve Glanstein wrote:
> > Hello all:
> > Question cam up about non=IBM disk drives. Anybody with RECENT
experience?


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