OT: Free 7017-S7A RS/6000

Troy Bowman troy at dublan.net
Mon May 14 17:44:51 MDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:05 -0600, Corey Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:50 -0600, Troy Bowman wrote:
> >   1 52.1GB disk
> >   6  8.6GB disks
> >  48  4.3GB disks
> >      -----
> >      310GB total
> 
> Wow. That's a lot of disks for not a lot of space. Granted it's from
> 1999 so it's still impressive. I have to wonder, though, how often did
> you have to replace drives? Given my track record, and considering it's
> 8 years old, I'm going to guess at least one a month.

We've only had to replace about 3 of them over the years.  I guess you
could say we were lucky, or maybe it was because these are
"enterprise-class" drives, whichever better fits your fancy.


../troy




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