RE: iSeries Disk Pricing

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'are working 50% slower'
There's the assumption.

Rob Berendt
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Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
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>Everybody keeps chanting the arms mantra as
>if a bank of original 10mb IBM PC hard drives
>would out perform a 8gb iSeries drive.

We're not comparing IBM PC hard drives to 8gig iSeries drives.  We're
comparing 1gig iSeries drives to 17gig iSeries drives.  In a heave
multi-user environment, arms are vital to reasonable service rates.  It's
a
matter of queuing theory more than anything.

If you have one teller serving a line of customers who works quite fast,
how
fast would he have to work to be able to equal 10 tellers are working 50%
slower?
  --buck
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