Ron, Obviously, I'm not going to change your mind or you mine.
I'm guessing you don't believe the Xephon reports, that's up to you. My past and present observations from working in this business show a 5+ to 1 ratio and it's growing. The 8 TB just rolled in the door so it is doing little of nothing yet, so what I'm observing is what they have on the floor and backups on that are running loooonnnng. If you have the money that eBay etc. has you can afford to keep a warehouse full of spares so when 1 goes down or 8 you can replace it without batting an eye. We don't need to do that in a mainframe world because the RAS is already there and mainframes just don't go down. Those are pretty much my feelings and before this turns into soemthing more heated this will be my last response to this thread. Take care. Bill Mainframe - An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies, serving billions of obsolete customers, and making huge obsolete profits, for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice fast as last year's. -Phil Payne- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
