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Chad, Why are you putting in two disk controllers? Are there two partitions?There are some reasons why encouraging you to put your disks outside the CEC are a good idea. We are finding more and more that if we partition, and put the drives in expansion units, it is much easier to upgrade. The new CEC replaces the old CEC and the partitions are already finished - no unload/reload. The less stuff in the CEC, the better.
Of course, since that applies to larger machines, it does not help the smaller business. I am sure IBM is listening, and they are incorporating high speed disk IOP into their iSis design..
Trevor----- Original Message ----- From: <ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: New 520+ Shipment It will be a 1 CPU 7143 520+ with 4GB Ram, 8 35gb drives, 1200/60 CPW. Pretty far down the food chain... ;) It will come in around either $60k or $80k after the added MES items depending on the disk controller approach we choose (5727 and 5776 in CEC or 5727 in CEC and 5580 in an 0595 expansion). The discount isn't spec'd yet, but should be in the 15%-18% range i'm guessing. As far as features, the worst part is having to add an expansion to run the 2757/2780/5580 type controllers... this is a killer to the small simple system concept. The 800 we're upgrading from has the 2757 in the CEC and is fine. The current restrictions preventing the souped up controllers in the CEC is a very bad design IMO.
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