RE: Installing Disk Units

You're not wrong in wanting that, but that doesn't mean the BP will do
it.

What does the BP say when you tell them you can get the drives cheaper
and you don't want to source the drives through the BP, you just want
them to install them?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Installing Disk Units
> From: Scott Johnson <sjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, August 11, 2005 9:39 am
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ok, maybe in over my head with the install part.  Have no problem paying 
> a "pro" to do it correctly.
> 
> But, local BP wants $1505 per drive. This online 
> business(www.perfdata.com) has them for $925(shipping included).  We 
> need at least 2 drives.  With the online price, we could get 4 drives 
> for only $690 more than 2 drives from the local BP.  Am I wrong in 
> wanting to buy them at the cheaper price online and then have the local 
> BP install them?
> 
> Pete Massiello wrote:
> 
> >  Scott,
> >
> >  Its easy to do and you can definitely do it yourselves. From the
> >  question, I don't know your technical skills on the iSeries so make
> >  sure you can answer these questions. I would assume you know you have
> >  slots to add the disks? If you are adding disks to an existing RAID
> >  set then the drives have to be the same types of drives already in
> >  the Raid set. Understand the difference between Starting RAID (or
> >  mirroring if that is your protection) and adding the units to the ASP
> >  (assume its the system ASP). I wouldn't be adding 35GB drives if you
> >  already have 8 and 17GB drives on the machine. You shouldnt be
> >  mixing 3 different types of drives for performance reasons. Have you
> >  been in DST before? Pete
> >
> >
> >  Pat Barber wrote:
> >
> > > Here are the manuals for that operation.
> > >
> > > 
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/v5r1hwpdf/pdf/model820.htm
> > >
> > >
> > > Scott Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> We are looking to increase our DASD by adding a couple of these
> > >> "IBM 4326 AS/400 iSeries 35.16 GB disk 9406-4326" to our 810.
> > >>
> > >> Is this something we can do ourselves or does it have to be done
> > >> via a BP?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks, Scott
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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