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Cripes! Not the "our development machine doesn't need it" argument again!
I don't know how many times our 400's have had a disk drive replaced midday
- I've lost count. I do know that our development machine was down for a
week because our saves didn't save access paths and it took that long to
rebuild them. And we don't slouch on our development machine. Currently
we have: 40S, 720, 730, 830, 820, 170, and a 720. Our development machine
is the 820-23A2 with an upgrade on order.
So, your development machine is down, program blows in production, and
your response to the plant manager is: "We had a disk drive fail. Please
wait a week while we do a restore and then we'll look at your problem."
Just won't cut the mustard, believe you me. No access to source, compiler,
test files to compile against, testing capabilities, change management
software, and the list goes on and on and on...
Rob Berendt
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Good job Larry, very creative and precise. This setup will be for a
development box and development libraries will be saved every night.
System initial load will be save to tape.
J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@arbsol.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: No Mirror or Raid
> > What are the PROs and CONs on a system without disk mirror or raid.
>
> Con: you would have to restore the entire system after a disk failure.
>
> Pro: you get a few more GB of storage to play with.
>
> Con: you would have to restore the entire system after a disk
failure.
>
> Pro: you save a few dollars because you don't need a RAID controller
>
> Con: you would have to restore the entire system after a disk failure.
>
> Pro: your maximum disk per model is a tad bit higher
>
> Con: you would have to restore the entire system after a disk failure.
>
> Pro: Certain disk upgrades are a bit easier cause you don't need to
> maintain RAID sets or mirrored pairs
>
> Con: you would have to restore the entire system after a disk failure.
>
> That's about all I can think of!
>
> - Larry
>
> --
> Larry Bolhuis | Cogito ergo mercari iSeries
> Arbor Solutions, Inc. |
> (616) 451-2500 | (I think, therefore I buy iSeries.)
> (616) 451-2571 -fax |
> lbolhuis@arbsol.com | #3 1951-2001
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