Highly recommend Nick over at ECS
https://www.expresscomputersystems.com/used-netapp-price-list.html
As Alexander mentioned, you may find that used disks are tagged with old ownership/aggregates/raid labels, so it's best to stick them in a dev system first to confirm they are indeed blank, and if not, zap them in maintenance mode.
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 9:07 PM, Alexander Griesser <AGriesser@anexia-it.com
wrote:
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 I do not have any recommendations for third-party suppliers in the US, but I've used some within Europe already for outdated filers of our customers already and never had real issues with those refurbished or used hard drives.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you can work around every single issue that might come up here, as long as your Ontap version is not too old on the outdated filers.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
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-----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.
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