Colin Paice wrote:
>These days disks are virtualized. I think the unit is the track. Two

>"adjacent" tracks from a data set perspective could be on different PC

>sized disks in the disk subsystem. The "disks" are usually irrelevant

>as the data is usually in cache!

 

This gets humorous at times. Someone I knew was doing a FIPS certification. 
Part of the process is taking pictures of the hardware used. That meant that a 
FIPS certification lab person got to fly to their outsourcer location and take 
a picture of *a* z CEC and *a* disk array-nobody was really sure which system 
they were physically running on at that moment, and certainly not where the 
data was spinning!


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