RE: Help me Justify iSeries

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, we have to be sure that we don't price ourselves out of the market
by using the iSeries for things it's not particularly good for.  That's
one of the reasons I've never pushed for native graphics on the iSeries
- I don't need the very expensive CPU cycles of my iSeries to be chewed
up calculating pixel positions on a screen.

Not all of us have the luxury of being able to cheaply add 35GB of disk
to our iSeries.

Joe


> From: Don
> 
> Well, Joe, frankly, I can put a decent intel server, with RAID5 SATA
on my
> net to serve as a repository at 1gig xfer rate...with just over a
terabyte
> of useable space....and do so for probably less than $3k...  ALSO, I
could
> spinoff my SAVF's to that server for some production libs and reduce
my
> downtime...etc....I'm thinking of upgrading one of my servers to do
just
> this!
> 
> So, IMPUHO (in my Politically UNCORRECT humble opinion), your solution
> isn't that far off...in terms of just a disk data repository sitting
out
> in the ether...  I just wish like hell I could do the same
config/pricing
> with a i5!!!