Hi Philbert,

not sure where you're located but since you didn't mention it, I guess you're based in the US.
I do not have any recommendations for third-party suppliers in the US, but I've used some within Europe already for outdated filers of our customers already and never had real issues with those refurbished or used hard drives.

JFTR, here are some suggestions for suppliers based in Germany:
https://www.servershop24.de/
https://www.miller-anlagen.de/shop
https://www.fibrestore.de/

You might experience bad labels on the disks as well as firmware issues which might need to be sorted out then; sometimes the disks are not zeroed so when plugging them in, you will see some left over aggregates from the previous filer they did belong to or the owner ids are still set; you can work around every single issue that might come up here, as long as your Ontap version is not too old on the outdated filers.

Best,

Alexander Griesser
Head of Systems Operations

ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH

E-Mail: AGriesser@anexia-it.com
Web: http://www.anexia-it.com

Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt
Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler
Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] Im Auftrag von Philbert Rupkins
Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Mai 2018 05:58
An: Toasters <toasters@teaparty.net>
Betreff: Spare Disks

Toasters,

Inherited a few production 7-mode systems that are off maintenance,
due to be retired and pretty low on spare disks.    Migrations to new
ONTAP 9 systems (A300's, yay!) are in progress but I'd like to purchase several spare disks for the 7-mode systems as a safety
measure.   Unfortunately, these disks are so old that NetApp no longer
sells them.

Is it generally safe to purchase refurbished (or new) NetApp disks
from a 3rd party?   Can anybody recommend a vendor?

I already grabbed quotes from our NetApp account team for lager capacity disks that I'm told won't be a problem for existing RAID
groups made up of smaller disks.   Primary concern is keeping the data
safe/available so, if purchasing 3rd party is a bad idea, we'll definitely to through NetApp.

3rd party options always come up in discussions and we've never gotten outside feedback so just curious if anybody has had good or bad experiences going 3rd party.

Thank you.
Phil
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