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Hi all,
I have started a side project to document (sometimes only mentally) the
benefits to owning an iSeries in an effort to learn why it is really better
than other platforms. I am pursuing this because I don't want to blindly
accept the platform as the best ever without knowing from where I speak.
With that said I just got done reading the following article from Alexei
Pytel concerning disk performance on i5/OS:
http://www.systeminetwork.com/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=PrintArticle
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What intrigued me was the caching mechanisms the i5 has including everything
down to having a dedicated battery to retain records that haven't yet been
written to disk in the event of a power failure (do a search for NVS in
above article for reference).
It would be my guess that a Wintel box DOES NOT have this intimate disk IO
and performance tunage. Would that be a true statement, or is it a "depends
on where you buy your hardware" type deal?
I would love to start an online list of feature comparisons where the i5, in
its entirety, is compared to other platforms (most specifically Wintel/.NET
implementations), and this would be one such entry that most might not think
of initially but in the end can be considered a plus that the i5 has over
other architectures/platforms/implementations. Often times comparisons are
done at the application tier (i.e. RPG vs. .NET/Java) and the whole picture
isn't taken into consideration.
Thoughts? Comments?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
midrange.com
