Re: I love my 400

[Tammy Ayala <tayala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm with you Joe ...  

Here we running many different platforms including RS6000,NT, Novell, 
HP, Windows 2000 and on and on.  Both of our AS400's are the most 
reliable machines in our entire environment.  There's something to be 
said for minimal downtime - especially in a healthcare environment....

Tammy

Joe Pluta wrote:

> I still love this machine.
>
> Even though the disk failure rate is higher than I would like, I'm happy to
> note that it hasn't caused me any serious trouble, and so far a total UDT
> (unscheduled down time) of 15 minutes this year.  I blew another disk drive
> yesterday, noticed it last night, called it in first thing this morning, and
> within an hour and a half it was being replaced (with one IPL which cost me
> the 15 minutes of UDT I spoke of).  The system is back up and running, and
> the disk is almost done rebuilding itself.
>
> This is what I pay for with my machine.  I guess with hot-swappable RAID
> drives I could get the same sort of coverage with a server farm, but I'd
> have to do it myself, eh?  Here, the drive was couriered in, the tech came
> in and installed it, and away I go.  I didn't even have to leave my desk.
>
> Joe
>
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