RE: DASD

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's the wrong question.  I'll bet that power cords and the knobs on the
front are cheaper too.  And the software.  And the developers.  And the
space and power used.

But one is not as reliable as the other and won't scale as well as the
other.  If your boss is concentrating on disk drives, does he also buy the
cheapest tires that that he can find for his car?  The cheapest food that he
can find?  The cheapest materials to make your company's products?  They are
not separate interchangable commodity products, they are components in a
complete system.

If you want more details about the physical drives, look at the IBM storage
web site.  You can find the AS/400 8GB and 17GB drives in there.

Richard Jackson
(speaking only for myself)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Lawrence_Tuttle@eogresources.com
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 7:33 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: DASD



Can someone tell my why DASD is so expensive on the AS/400 vs Intel?

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