As to your other question, I would never argue that we’d be as fast as flash but I would argue that we’re cheaper!!

The way I look at it is wide-striping becomes an interesting alternative somewhere between standard FC drives and flash. What’s interesting is that they both boost performance for the same type of workload, namely, high R/W ratio with random reads. There’s WRT performance benefit as well, but it’s less dramatic.

It’s the customer’s vote on this one. We just provide the candidates…

I can see your point of the 105K RPM drive, but wouldn’t the 42 MB page size necessity (or the reasoning behind this page size) become obsolete if you were to use flash drives…?

Bas

Just some additional food for thought.

Clearly you fellows at Hitachi don’t have the time to publicly address pertinent questions, choosing instead to invest your hours in trying to mislead prospects, press, analysts and Wall street 1-on-1 about your shiny new toy. Fact is, you’ve been promising this capability to customers for over 4 years, and the best you can do after all the delays is to pre-announce it long before it will even ship - and apparently before it even goes into Beta.

Given that USP-V is over 4 years old, V-Max must have you all really scared (with good reason, to be sure). I’m just not sure your installed base is believing the “don’t worry, we have a plan” hype, especially without answers to real questions.

And please note, I have given you (collectively) every opportunity to set the record straight, and I have not (yet) resorted to misrepresenting HAM in an attempt to discredit the effort. But when you (collectively) refuse to answer the very real questions, and resort to admitted censorship in the process, you leave your audience (and me) little choice but to come to some very negative conclusions.

So tell us - what is it that you’re so afraid to reveal?

Instead, you deleted my questions. And by doing so, you DID in fact censor me, and thus you have “precluded” answering questions that were entirely relevant to your announcement.

You may as well just have left my questions up and stated “I refuse to answer these questions.”

But I totally understand - you really don’t want people to be asking the tough questions in a public forum, and thus it is easier for you to delete them (and acknowledge doing so) than it would be to provide answers.

As I asked @HDScorp on Twitter - what exactly is it that you are trying to hide?

Your selective answers seem to underscore the industry’s growing concern that you’re hiding something. Why wasn’t the GA date of Q4 noted in the announcement - at least EMC came out right up front and gave FAST delivery schedules…seems Symmetrix customers could have FAST before Hitachi customers can have HAM.

And you’re saying that there are no host SW requirements whatsoever? If so, please explain to us all exactly how a host knows to start sending I/Os to a different target in the fail-over scenario?

And exactly how does consistency and compliance work when TSM can’t relocate a volume that is being replicated?

Oh, and please - you are the undeniable expert in all things IBM mainframe. Are you suggesting that Hyperswap is the solution to tech refresh migrations for CKD devices?

With all due respect, if indeed there is nothing to hide, then please - answer ALL of my questions - one by one.

And while you’re at it - explain why I had to ask these questions in the first place: why did HDS choose to hide the details in Such An Important Announcement?????

Enquiring Minds wanna know!