Re: No Mirror or Raid

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Oh, gosh, you're gonna make me look up the original post again?
<dig, dig, dig>

Ok, Dare's original query on the subject was:
>What are the PROs and CONs on a system without disk mirror or raid.

I listed a bunch of CONs and one little PRO, hence the CONs outweigh the PROs.

It was not my intention to imply that anyone should consider a "system without
disk mirror or raid".  Is that what you read from that?  The context of my
post should have made that clear.

Dare, based on your new revelation that this is strictly a development system,
you should be o.k. as long as you can accept the risk of losing whatever work
you did since your last backup.  I imagine your risk would be somewhat reduced
given some of the new drive diagnostics IBM builds in that detects problems
before they occur.  In the end, you roll the dice.

Perhaps you should consider a scenario whereby you put a new tape in the drive
first thing in the morning and let the job scheduler do a SAVCHGOBJ to tape
every hour on the hour.  Might be overkill for your situation, but what if
your DASD crashed at 4:30 p.m. after a day of heavy development on a real
tight deadline?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
From: <D.BALE@handleman.com>
> The CONs far outweigh and PROs.

Dan, come again on the above statement...
Leif
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