If you're planning to upgrade I thought you might like to see this snippet of an email I sent to someone.
Fun fact:
Your Power 9 9009-41A, with it's four 283GB 15k spinning disks is at 71% of it's 851GB of available storage. It takes 9 hours to perform your backup to your LTO6 tape drive using the tapes you have.
My Power 9 9009-41A, with it's numerous SSD drives is at 74% of it's 2,087GB of available storage. It takes 1 hour and 5 minutes to save it to VTL (Virtual Tape Library).
We plan on upgrading it this year and trading it in for a newer model. We're keeping the VTL.
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Robert Berendt IBMChampion
Business Systems Analyst, Lead
Dekko
Fort Wayne
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