Re: More space on a 170? Other ways to speed it up?

Considering the hardware is more that 6 years old I cannot see putting any 
more money into it. 

I suggest looking into the express models.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/hardware/520express/specifications.html

maybe $12k (list) for the smallest one.


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Bryan Dietz 

Aktion Associates 


midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/26/2006 03:49:38 PM:

-> Fellow geeks:
-> 
-> The neighbor for whom we did the memory upgrade this past 
-> weekend might possibly be interested in more disk space, 
-> and/or anything else that might make the system a bit 
-> peppier. The memory upgrade should help a bit (it 
-> increased available memory fivefold), and we also advised 
-> them to do something about the thousands of spool files 
-> sitting in output queues, but I'm hoping there's more.
-> 
-> The box in question is a "slim" 170, and all 4 drive slots 
-> are taken up by (I believe) 6713s. No mirroring, and so 
-> far as I'm aware, no parity groups, either, and the drives 
-> are all at around 55%.
-> 
-> Are there bigger and/or faster drives available for a 170? 
-> Other ways to make the system run faster?
->