RE: I/O features not planned to be supported beyond V5R3 -- MIDRANGE-L

Were there higher capacity drives available for the 810?  Or was the 6718 
the highest offered?  Sometimes by reducing the number of disk arms you 
can improve performance.  We went from 42 drives to 7 and had a much 
better performing machine.  Granted it was also a drop from a P30 tier 
down to a P10 tier - an 820 down to a 520.
My point being, that staying with older drives for the believe that older 
drives with more disk arms beats newer drives with less disk arms, 
performance wise:
1- may not be true
2 - may get you in a bind like you are in now.
3 - may fill up your rack space, thus limiting your potential for growth 
in the future.

Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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This concerns me greatly.  We bought a new 810 last year (after two years 
of
lobbying for an upgrade) that came with 10 6718 disk units.  We migrated 
an
additional 10 6717 disk units from our old 720.  Now this planning 
statement
indicates that none of our disk units will be supported (on a current O/S)
beyond next year.

Something like this could cause my shop to get out of the iSeries
altogether.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group 

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date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:33:53 -0500
from: Neil Palmer/DPS <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: I/O features not planned to be supported beyond V5R3

:-)

Several of those tape drives are in the 8xx models and are still being 
sold.


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Since they are not going to support 170 or 7XX boxes,
that doesn't leave many machines to put those feature
codes in does it ???

This is one way to really leave a lot of older machines
in the dust...

They apparently forgot that pledge thing about not leaving
any customers behind ???(except those who buy new machines)

I assume the price of hardware is going to be sooo low that
everybody will buy one.

I'm just trying to imagine all those billions of backup
tapes on obsolete media....(just kidding)

I can hear it now, "Uhhh, those new 200tb tape drives can't
seem to read any of our old backup tapes".
 
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