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So, what makes them so much more expensive then? There's a factor of 10 compared to the price of PC drives. I know they're more reliable, but is that the only advantage? From the iSeries Storage homepage, "These drives are industrial strength drives which have unique iSeries and AS/400 performance/reliability functions. These drives are supported by iSeries and AS/400 disk controllers and I/O processors within the iSeries or AS/400 which provide additional performance and reliability benefits." I also understand that they have an "advanced problem reporting feature." Oh, and we all remember the drive fiasco from last Summer/Fall... How many of you guys got bad disk units? Chris -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 3:15 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Disk Drives From: Neil Palmer <neilp@dpslink.com> > Oh ? It just magically appears with no cost for writing or maintaining it > ? You're writing the cose for IBM for free ? ;-) > (I know - certainly NOT enough cost in it to explain the price > difference). > that is, of course, what I meant. Even a $89 PC disk drive needs a driver program that also costs money, but we are talking pennies. In IBM's case probably not pennies, but certainly such a minute fraction of the total disk drive cost that I doubt (as you do) that that is what is driving the price up into the stratosphere. _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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