RE: Raid problems

[Chris.Whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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Art: Reverse-engineering anything is always has an element of risk. How do you
know you've covered all the code paths?
Development and testing.

We all remember that IBM had MAJOR problems with disk units about this time
last year. So did the other iSeries disk vendors. The facts demonstrate that
catastrophe can occur even with IBM equipment. Just stating that because it's
IBM it's better really holds no weight. We've seen that there's a major risk
with using the IBM drives - how many of you had serious downtime or had to
reload systems? Well, if I'm going to have a risk anyway I'll go with a
company that actually uses and sells IBM disk units instead of going with IBM
who outsourced their disks to Seagate.

And I'll get faster drives cheaper. IBM has stated that for their eServers the
15k drives are "80% faster" overall than the 10k drives. It's a shame that they
won't provide that the the iSeries community. iSeries customers are having to
buy more drives now for performance and not for space. I've got my IBM 15k
drives.
Chris Whisonant
Comporium
IBM Certified Specialist
(803) 326-7270
mailto:chris.whisonant@comporium.com