Andrew Siegel wrote:
In my opinion (as a 12-year customer), the 16TB limit is the number one deficiency in NetApp software at the moment, and perhaps their biggest deficiency ever. I would be very surprised if they weren't losing customers over this issue.
Acknowledged. I think they changed the limit from 10TB to 16TB with Ontap7, correct? Disc sizes are growing and growing - unless NetApp changes to solid state disks (flash), a higher limit would be nice to have.
BTW, I'm searching for a way to securely wipe out all data at our R200 disks. (ATA, 154x274gig) I wanted to build a big volume, but the 16TB hit me too. Has anyone ever played with 'dd' at Ontap side? Is there a hidden random device (/dev/random) I can use to create random data? Any hints? :)