RE: First time buying System i5

It's easy, and you'll find that most HW on the 520 and 550 systems are
CIF (Customer-installable features).  IBM *will* do it, but they'll
charge you.


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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of albartell
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 9:51 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: First time buying System i5

Look at upgrading to 4 disk drives and the RAID controller.  You can do

this after market.  

In the past shops I have worked in I seem to remember an IBM guy coming
in whenever drives needed to be swapped or anything to do with hardware
had to be done.  I am guessing the company had some sort of top tier
<1hr response time contract with IBM.  Now that I am in a much smaller
shop I will most likely be involved in doing after market upgrades. So
here's my question.

How easy is it to put in a new HD, or change an existing one, or put in
more memory?  Do I void warranties if I do it myself?  Probably sound
like dumb questions, but I have to ask because I just don't know.

Thanks,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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