Re: Disk requirement (performance-wise) on a Power 7 replacing a System i 520

16drives on a 520 means you have at least one 0595 and drives on both
the CEC (with it's sucky 40mb controller) and the 0595 (with a wide
range of controllers).
I would think that any controller at the p7 level would stomp the
ground with those. I'm not so sure on the disk arm side, i keep
reading that a bare min would be 6 arms...
To be able to compare properly you would need to get a rack config, or
at least list the disk controllers and which drives are hooked up to
which controller.
And check which controller would be on the power7 machine...

Best Regards,


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All,

I've asked a BP for a quote on a Power 7 to replace our System i 520,
thinking that maybe the 3 year cost wouldn't be much more than the
maintenance alone on the System i. Haven't received the quote yet, so I
don't know if I'm delusional or not.

Anyway, the System i has 16 ~36gb drives at only 20% capacity. IOW we only
have 98gb data on the System i. Isn't the smallest drive available on the
Power 7 larger than that? At a minimum I would want 4 drives, raided, with
a 5th as a hot spare. Any way to tell the performance, disk-wise, of that
system as compared to our current system?

Thanks.

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UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.
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