Re: To Sell 520 or Not To Sell 520

[Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 19:33, Shannon ODonnell
<sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm wondering if it might be better to sell it outright now, while it is
> still relevant, and worth a little more money, as opposed to waiting until
> V6R1 is reaching end of life and I can no longer upgrade it.

The 9405-520's can run V7R1. I'm really really sure of that :)

> If I sold it, I could lease a newer box.but that's not the same as owning
> one.

Problem is, if you buy a new box now you're basically getting old tech
- Power 6. And it will be quite a bit of time till Power 7 trickles
down to the machines restricted to a single core.

Do you need more power? Depending on your workload and the current
configuration of the 520 you have, you might want to consider buying a
few more disks and a RAID controller with cache - you can get these
used. They still have insane prices, but they're less insane than
IBM's list prices.