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Our model 640s have an extensive farm of 4 Gig drives.  IBM's
performance squad did inform us that we're getting much better
performance for  system of our size simply because we have so many
arms!

Just in passing, I mentioned our arms to our CE and mumbled something
about number of arms in the new hardware.  He pointed out that the
newest drives are 10,000 RPM vs slower speeds, plus the on-board
cache is larger, which both tend to compensate for the number of arms
being 1/4 of what we have now.

I assume you're going to set these up as a RAID or Mirror set!

Now, I haven't actually seen any numbers, and have no practical
experience with bigger drives, but you may want to consider the speed
as part of the equation.

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.nospam.com



>Matthias Muttered (in part):
>
>- Disk arms: I'm looking at getting 4 17GB disks. Another option would
>be to get 6 8GB disks in order to spread the load over more arms. But
>from what I hear, IBM is going to discontinue the 8GB drives shortly
>due to problems. How badly will having just 4 arms impact performance?
>Are the 17GB's the right choice (performance wise)?




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