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Hi RobI think that is why so many of these systems also have a hot swap disk - it's cheap enough to be included in the cost, but more likely to be required.
I think on the subject of disk I would be happier to have cheaper disk if I could have a hot swap (perhaps better thought of as a standby disk) as well as the existing RAID-5 protection. if disk were less reliable then only having one disk between me and failure would be not so comfortable.
I've seen many customers who do not even realise they have a failed disk until you tell them.
Regards Evan Harris At 07:12 a.m. 25/01/2006, you wrote:
Come to think of it, since we are RAID-5 protected, even if we did have to replace 10 or more drives in our various iSeries per year I might be willing to risk it at the much lower price. Provided they never happened at the same time in the same raid set. (Like there's any guarantee that the mega expensive drives wouldn't. Last disk message was a card that needed reseating that falsely indicated that 14 drives hurled.) Rob Berendt
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