RE: iSeries Disk Drives - Generic?

[CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Steve,

Just out of curiosity, which non-IBM microcode drive were you using?

I had BCC at my last employer, and they've not had any problems.  They've
had 10 drives fro almost three years and just recently had one fail.

Charles



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Morrison [mailto:smorrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:34 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: iSeries Disk Drives - Generic?
> 
> 
> We just completed swapping out 30 non-IBM microcode drives 
> for used AS/400
> specific IBM drives, because of dependability problems. The 
> replaced drives
> were IBM branded drives, but had third party microcode. For 
> dependability, I
> would recommend the Rochester approved drives. 
> 
> Check the used equipment dealers. We paid less than 
> $250/drive for 17 GB
> drives, and now we're back under IBM maintenance if we do have drive
> problems.
> 
> If you search the AS/400 System Builders Handbook, you may 
> see a reference
> to a CIF (Customer Installable Feature) to replace 4GB drives 
> with larger
> capacity drives. We're considering doing that upgrade to a 
> Model 170 to use
> it as a test box.
> 
> 
> Steven Morrison
> Beacon Insurance
> 940-720-4672 
>