Hi,
1. We have an ESA10000, HSZ70 controllers and a mix of
18.2Gb and 36.4Gb drives (more of 18Gb). Planning on
increasing disk capacity, and easiest way would be
swapping the 18Gb by the 36.4Gb drives, but we will
then have about 48 18Gb spares, which is not really
economically sound. Is there a legal trade-in
somewhere, which we can take advantage of?
2. Wanted to purchase spares (36.4Gb) drives from
compaq. They only have 10000rpm drives, which needs us
to upgrade to firmware version 7.7a (currently 7.3).
With our 3 pair (dual redundant controllers), price
tag is $4500 for the PMCIA and software. No work
around on this I guess? 7200rpm drives anywhere else?
DOES anybody use different vendor storage platforms,
on their Alpha Servers(4100's, Tru64 v.4.0G).
Tradeoffs? Gains? Please advise.
_Thanks
Richard Mollel
SAIC
Greenbelt, MD 20771
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Received on Tue Apr 10 2001 - 17:07:00 NZST