Also consider, there is apparently a new 3590 product in the wings shortly that will can place 60GB uncompressed on a K-cartridge, 30GB on a J-cartridge. It may pay to seek that solution.
Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3590 pricing (used) => On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:06:10 -0400, Steve Schaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Has anyone purchased used 3590 equipment recently and would be willing > to share a reasonable ballpark dollar amount? We are running out of > room in our 3494 and would like to start converting our S/390 over > from 3490 to 3590. What would be a good price for an A60 controller > and four 3590E1A or B1a (escon) drives? > Alternately, if I sacrificed my 4) 3590E1A drives from TSM to the > Mainframe and bought a separate library for TSM, what would it take to > replace what I have (277-J, 218-K of which 119-K are offsite)? Whatever you do, don't bother buying a new 3494. Just expand what you've got. If you think about it, there's no way you can possibly save cash that way. If you're willing to take the hit in seek time, then you could go for a dumber library: a 3584 with LTO drives will most definitely be fewer dollars per TB, fewer square feet of floor per TB, etc. and the LTO physical standard has absolutely tremendous upgrade paths. But if you're sticking with the 3590s for a bit longer (which was our call) then just toss the new drives in the existing 3494. The used market is pretty good. Lots of folks who don't need the access speed are going LTO, so some 3590s are hitting the market. It'll be wierd when my 3494 is my "low-latency, low-capacity" storage format. :) - Allen S. Rout
