RE: Disk Drives -- MIDRANGE-L

This is not meant to be an all encompassing reply, but I will point out a
few facts:

1).  One of the things that makes them more expensive is that IBM replaces
them, proactively, at their expense, when they are bad.
2).  The high cost of AS/400 integration is one of the things that makes
the AS/400 the lowest cost per user server in the market place.

Al - in Charlotte on vacation

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                    Chris Whisonant
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                    03/27/02 03:30 PM
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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.


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