Re: Disk Failure

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They (IBM) must be consolidating hardware manufacturing to the lowest
cost producer.  Who knows, we just may have an AS/6000 in our future.
;-)


Larry Bolhuis wrote:
> 
> Sure,
> 
>   New 820 with 42 8G 10K Drives.  Lost one on about week three then two
> the same day a week later.
> 
>   Model 720 with mostly 4G drives but 4 8G 10Ks. Lost two in the span of
> a week.
> 
>   Model 270 with 4 8G 10Ks. Lost one within first two months.
> 
>   They're not what I'd call the most reliable drives so far, although
> I'm told the 'failed' drives aren't actually bad but once OS/400 decides
> they are they must be replaced.
> 
>   Current Drive PTFs seem to have slowed the failure rate.
> 
>    - Larry
> 
> barsa@barsaconsulting.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My financial system is a model 270 with 6 10,000 RPM 8 GB DASD units.  I
> > had my first failure last Tuesday on that system, which was protected by
> > RAID-5.  The disk was replaced later on Tuesday.  Today (Monday) I have had
> > another unit on that system fail, just six days apart.
> >
> > Any similar stories?
> >
> > Al
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