Herbie, Good Guess, but IBM, EMC and HDS send faulty drives back to Seagate and Hitachi for analysis for their modular products as well. There is no difference between drives used in Enterprise and Modular arrays. IT's not a hidden service, it's simply the warranty that the Disk manufacturer provides (it's been half a decade since IBM made a disk drive).
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Van Dalsen, Herbie > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 6:42 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Flash memory arrays > > I can certainly see why "mainframe disk" is more expensive, but is this > the really case? Nowadays most unix / windows servers needs some sort > of > a SAN environment. That costs a lot of money, like an Clariion, or the > like. I am still convinced that the hidden service that IBM provide > where they remove a faulty disk from an ESS and send it back to be > analyzed and the regularity with which they provide microcode... > > Just my $0.01 > > Herbie > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
