Re: Typical PC Guy question - and request for RFB contacts -- MIDRANGE-L

yes . hehe . to its knees .  . . .my mind is in top condition today as you
can plainly see:).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Haase" <JHaase@jackhenry.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:42 PM
Subject: RE: Typical PC Guy question - and request for RFB contacts


> Hard to say unless you figure out where your contention is coming from
> first.  Generally, you should notice a lot better performance just from
the
> hop in model.  However, the 17G DASD has me scared you'll be at only 1
disk
> arm (active - should be mirrored to another 17 Gb drive) while your old
> system leads me to think 4x 4 Gb drives with RAID-5.  So you may have an
> increase in drive contention.
>
> However, generally speaking you should notice an increase in performance.
A
> detailed analysis of contention would need to be done first to figure out
> for sure what kind of numbers you'd get.
>
> jch
>
> ps - did you mean "to it's knees"?
> pps - be prepared for a barrage of e-mails.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Hardy [mailto:mis@jdcc.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:38 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Typical PC Guy question - and request for RFB contacts
>
>
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> --
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> I, having very little AS400/iseries experience am in charge of our current
> AS400.  I understand fully the impact in performance when I talk in
> Megahertz, RAM, etc. and have learned a decent amount of IBM lingo, DASD,
> main memory, CPW, etc.
>
> My question is this .  .our third pary vendor recently made a needed
change
> to our administrative software which has our current system at its needs.
> We are a higher ed. institution and we have students waiting 3-4 minutes
for
> fees to process.
>
> Our current machine is a model 600-2129 , 22.7 SHARED CPW, 192 main mem.
and
> 12G DASD.
>
> I am looking at a refurb 170-2291, 115/25 CPW, 512 main mem and 17G DASD.
>
> Disk space is not an issue for me . .the ONLY thing this box is used for
is
> this ONE third party app (no web, mail, storage, etc).  I have been told
> that this 170 config will push me to the top of the P05 group (don't want
to
> go P10 for budgetary reasons).
>
> My questions are this:
>
> 1. What kind of performance increase am I looking at generically.  I know
> you can't give me exact figures, but in generic terms, are we talking
about
> moving from a 386 to a pentium here?  maybe better?  I have some
performance
> figures on this box . .but i'm really not interested in specifics . .just
> trying to get an overall feel for CPW ratings and the difference they
make.
>
> 2. I need to bid out this project (the hardware, license transfer and data
> move).  If you handle this type of thing, please send me your contact
> information, including name, address, phone, fax and email.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Anthony Hardy
> Director of MIS/Enrollment Management
> Jefferson Davis Community College
> (251) 809-1531
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