I've had customers facing this same dilemma. Replacement of the hardware
itself is no real problem, buy three now and put them on the shelf.
The issue comes in with drive microcode and fixes to IBM i storage
management. If/when there is a problem with one of the drives that's not
related to hardware, then you'll need IBM support. I don't know that they
will tell you to go fish since I know Paul would keep current SWMA but if
the problem comes down to a microcode fault or something else other than a
failure on the drive, it could become interesting to see how IBM would react
to that.
My customers have all chosen instead to replace the SSDs with new ones that
include the warranty. It's more expensive up front, but then again you get
bigger/faster/better with the knowledge that IBM will bend over backwards to
make it right if there's an issue.
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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Christopher Bipes
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 4:11 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Opinions on dropping maintance on SSD drives after the 3 year
warranty expires
Con - may not be able to purchase a matching SSD for your system once you
have a failure. IBM may only have them available for parts.
Check availability before you make your decision.
Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.
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Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 2:02 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Opinions on dropping maintance on SSD drives after the 3 year
warranty expires
Our 3 year warranty on our 13 SSD drives will expire Feb 2018.
The 24x7 maintenance will be around $15,000 annually, just for the 13 SSD.
ES0P 775GB SFF-3 SSD for IBM i 13 80600
1092 P
I have 2 Raid-5 sets, one with 6, one with 5, and two hot spares.
I've never had an SSD fail in 6 years.
The first set of SSD we swapped 3 years ago for larger SSD when they were
coming off warranty and we needed more space.
We're contemplating not putting the 13 ESOP on maintenance.
If one would fail, I'm protected with Raid-5 with a hot spare.
Simply buy another unit if and when a failure would occur.
Any thoughts, Pros/Cons from the group.
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