Re: iSeries Disk Pricing

Diana,

You can always get used 8GB drives.

Peter Lunde
Millennium Computer Maintenance Inc.
1250B Reid Street, Suite #3,
Richmond Hill, ON
L4B 1G3
905-764-0606

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Hicks" <DianaH@jupiter.fl.us>
To: "'Midrange-L submission'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:48 PM
Subject: RE: iSeries Disk Pricing


> I'm a little backlogged on reading messages.  I wanted to agree on the
need
> for 8GB drives.  It would be very costly for us to go to 17GB drives
because
> we are running RAID and we would have to buy a minimum of 4 just to add
more
> capacity.  Normally, we purchase one drive per year (unless it is time for
a
> processor upgrade).
>
> Diana Hicks
> Town of Jupiter
> dianah@jupiter.fl.us <mailto:dianah@jupiter.fl.us>
>
> IBM Certified Specialist-AS/400 RPG IV Programmer
> IBM Certified Specialist-AS/400 Systems Administrator
>
> --__--__--
>
> From: "Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Subject: RE: iSeries Disk Pricing
> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 06:35:09 -0400
> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
> Friends,
>
> While it is good news that IBM is significantly reducing the price
> of
> their disk drives, for many workloads there may well be no change.
> This
> announcement prices the 17 GB drives at exactly the old price of the
> 8
> GB drives ($1,400).  For those who require raw capacity, this
> represents
> a significant savings.
>
> For those of us who have routinely sized DB2-based transaction
> systems,
> frequently we end up configuring excess storage capacity in order to
> obtain an appropriate number of disk arms to ensure adequate
> performance.  This general rule applied for me in most systems using
> 8
> GB drives.  I needed the arms more than the capacity.  Because the
> 17 GB
> drives seem to have roughly the same rotational speed and seek times
> as
> the 8 GB drives, it stands to reason that a number of systems will
> require exactly the same number of drives at exactly the same price.
> There will be a significant increase in the amount of excess storage
> using the 17 GB drives, but the end result could well be no cost
> reduction.
>
> I'd welcome comment on this, but I think my reasoning is sound.
> Some
> systems would be better served by reducing the cost of 8 GB drives
> rather than discontinuing them.
>
> I would prefer to be wrong because I'm trying to focus on the good
> news
> of the announcement, and there is a lot.
>
> Regards,
> Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Please visit the Town of Jupiter online at http://www.jupiter.fl.us
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