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to: Richard B.
from: Robert Comer
date: 2003-03-07 12:19:04
subject: Re: SCSI drive preference?

From: "Robert Comer" 

> I've never touched an AS/400 so I'm scared. 

No pain no gain to begin with. Heck, I'd put the drives in for you. (for a
small fee, maybe a steak dinner.)

I just ordered 2 new drives for our AS/400 -- I expect it'll take about 10
minutes work to get them in and set up.

After the initial learning pain, it's pretty smooth sailing.

- Bob Comer


"Richard B."  wrote in message
news:64kh6vorthncg77in4cuba836ss8hdrj9g{at}4ax.com...
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:36:22 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
> >SCSI drives, or is IDE good enough? (capacity/cost over speed)
>
> I have an IDE box w/ RAID5, it's a bit pokey. But yeah, for a lot of
> archive stuff, IDE is good enough.
>
> >Get yourself an AS/400 with a RAID controller then. ;-)
>
> I've never touched an AS/400 so I'm scared. 
>
> - Richard

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