Used Iseries Replaces Our Old Servers
My husband found a great deal on some used iseries servers at the local computer store. I guess that they buy used equipment and someone who had to replace them with a different brand came in and offered to let store buy them for a great price.
Since the used bladecenter servers that we had installed about twenty years ago were pretty much on their last legs, we thought that this would be a great investment. You could not beat the price they were asking. When we had bought the used bladecenter servers, we had purchased them from a company that was going out of business and they lasted a long time with only minor repairs over the years.
We called our computer guy and informed him that we would need the old ones taken out and the new used iseries servers to be installed as soon as he could get to it. He let us know that it would be about a week before he could get to us, and we were okay with that.
It has been four weeks since we had the new servers installed and everything seems to be running very smoothly. We are hoping that we get twenty years out of these.