Re: Can system unit drives be used by IBM i? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Can system unit drives be used by IBM i?
From: Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 19:35:37 +0200
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Hello Rob,

Am 01.04.2026 um 18:42 schrieb Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>:

2 - When I get there next I don't want to sit around and wait for disk initialization. I want to unplug, unrack and go.

In that case, I'd unrack, unplug and go, and afterwards connect the flash disks in my "main location" to a SAS HBA in a Linux box, and run a blkdiscard command over all of them. This does not stress the SSDs flash memory like dumb overwriting does. I deem this "safe enough" and both cases might leave data behind which can be recovered by tampering with the flash mem controller in the SSDs. YMMV.

:wq! PoC

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