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It can?
For some reason I thought that V6R1 was the last available upgrade for it.
That's interesting...
Puts a bit of a different light on it maybe....
Shannon O'Donnell
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 1:06 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: To Sell 520 or Not To Sell 520
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 19:33, Shannon ODonnell
<sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm wondering if it might be better to sell it outright now, while it is
still relevant, and worth a little more money, as opposed to waiting until
V6R1 is reaching end of life and I can no longer upgrade it.
The 9405-520's can run V7R1. I'm really really sure of that :)
If I sold it, I could lease a newer box.but that's not the same as owning
one.
Problem is, if you buy a new box now you're basically getting old tech
- Power 6. And it will be quite a bit of time till Power 7 trickles
down to the machines restricted to a single core.
Do you need more power? Depending on your workload and the current
configuration of the 520 you have, you might want to consider buying a
few more disks and a RAID controller with cache - you can get these
used. They still have insane prices, but they're less insane than
IBM's list prices.
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