Jim:

I checked this out on your heads up-- took me by surprise too. The short
of it is that the RACK mount HASS enclosures are being obsoleted in
favor of this new HVD10 product that supports faster and bigger disks.
The DESKSIDE HASS will remain until some future product TBA in 2001
takes it's place. The HVD10 product is more expensive to buy, but it
holds more capacity in it's footprint. The kicker is that you need to be
careful which disks you order under MPE, because some of the disks
supported in the enclosure are not supported under MPE. Meanwhile, HASS
parts (disks, fans, power supplies) will be available till mid 2001 and
there is the standard 5 year support life. There is also the typical HP
trade in program to move your rack mount HASS out and the HVD10 in.

Hey, what have you bought from HP lately? ;-)

John Painter
Computer Solutions, Inc.
http://www.internetcsi.com




Jim Phillips wrote:
>
> I read where:
>
> "High Availability Storage System (HASS) (A3312A/AZ) Rack Units will be
> Discontinuance on November 1, 2000. This will be the 6-month notice. The
> customers are recommend to go to the HP SureStore HVD10 product (A5616A/AZ).
> Please see the ESP and CNO announcement on the HVD10."
>
> Just what does this mean?
>
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