I, too, disconnected an old RVA - about 8 months ago. I was able to show management that they could buy a brand new DS6800 box with 3 TB disk to replace my RVA (with 200 GB physical) and pay for it well within the 4 year warranty period, just in maintenance and software cost savings - and get much better performance to boot. When I powered off the RVA, the load on my UPS went down 5 percent!
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Just another example of mainframe costs. > When they found out what I paid for maintenance per year for 500gib I > couldn't get them to stop laughing. I bought an external 500GB USB2 backup disk for a home system yesterday for a couple of hundred bucks. So yeah, even though things have come down a long way, mf costs are still out in the ozone. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
