Just brought in 3 TB of z-series disk and if I did my math correct, 50 MB cost me about $2.22 US. OK, I know that doesn't count the cost of backups and all the incidental costs associated with it, but that needs to be compared against the cost of tape handling, making and keeping track of duplicates for D/R scenarios, etc.
Powered off an ancient RVA yesterday. Anybody want it? Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 10:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM announces Encrypting tape drives On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:26:49 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 13:13 +0200, R.S. wrote: >> .... Get rid of old stinking >> tape DDnames with 50MB datasets. Use DASD instead.... > >Nope. Not even close. > ... >Not to mention the (mainframe) DASD cost. > How much do *you* think 50 MB of DASD costs? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
