Re: Disk Drives

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's a good question. But there are, AFAIK, clear differences, most likely
in the controllers. One of hte benefits of the iSeries is its ability to
detect faults very early, and to report them. That's part of the hardware.

Still, you might look at network storage (SAN?), ot at the xSeries
integration, where you can get lots of storage on an NT or whatever and
manage it from the 400.

Just ideas - others will know more.

At 09:04 AM 3/27/02 -0500, you wrote:
>What's the deal with the prices on iSeries drives? $2000 for a 10k 17.5 GB
>drive! We're working on getting a quote for a Dedicated Server for Domino or
>an Exchange solution. Software will be comparable, but the disk drives are
>killing the hardware quote.
>
>Of course, I would love to go this route, but can anyone give me some
>pointers to justify the $1800+/drive difference between the IBM disks and pc
>disks?
>
>Are there any other drive or storage solutions?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris Whisonant
>The Comporium Group
>Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
>IBM Certified Specialist
>(803) 326-7270
>mailto:chris.whisonant@comporium.com
>
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