re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#62 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#65 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
post from similar thread in this n.g. from 2007 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#13 Question on DASD Hardware with references to commodity disk having MTBF in the million-plus hrs and google's (then) recently published study: "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population" (invluving more than 100,000 drives). there was similar but different study from the period that Google's computing infrastructure was about 1/3rd of the cost (including doing their own assembly, management, maintenance) compared to ordering from brand name vendor ... by carefully studying which components to buy in quantity and puttting them together themselves. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
