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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Pat Barber
<mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You must have some real "insider" info that most other
folks in the industry aren't aware of.
Just look at what a mechanically identically System x hard drive
costs. Then compare it to the cost of a System i #4328 drive.
Let's look at the 147GB 15kRPM U320 drives (I do not have a list of
POWER drive prices right here, so we'll stick with the older tech):
System x Part #40K1044 - List Price 500 CHF (about 500 US$)
System i Feature #4328 - List Price 2900 CHF (about 2900 US$)
Okay - the drives are physically the same. The System i drives use a
different sector size, and report different ids. Changing the sector
size is a matter of doing a proper low level format - it's not a
hardware thing. Of course the System i drives report specific IDs in
order to ensure that the System i uses only specific drives.
I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.
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