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Hi Ken, as400 disk are not what they use to be (there are several treads on
this list about this subject). I don't pay attention to life expectancy
anymore, I would suggest you to protect your disks with some level of raid
and keep going. Replacing the ones that crash when that happens. Remember to
always keep a good backup handy.

Regards

EAPT
Informatica Corporativa


-----Original Message-----
From: Shields, Ken [mailto:kenshields@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 8:10 AM
To: 'Midrange Mailing LIst'
Subject: Hard disk longevity

        Hello group...
                I have a number of AS436 machines in our branches, that have
been out there running since 1998, that's
                about six years now.
                I'm not exactly sute what the device numver is foe the 2GB
drives in these boxes, but does anyone in the group
                now what the life expectancy is for these hard drives. Sorry
I can't be more specific about the drive type.
                
                One crashed last year, and we spent almost a week to re-coup
it.

Ken Shields

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