You sure about that? It states in the system configuration guide that ATA drives can be used and in fact increase the capacity potential of the 900 series.
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Shane Garoutte Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:55 PM To: Tom Samplonius Cc: toasters Subject: Re: Clustered heads with SATA disk shelves?
Clustering with SATA is fine, however the 900 series FAS controllers do not support SATA. You can only add SATA (officially) to FAS270, FAS30XX and FAS60XX series systems.
http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/product_info.html
The above product comparison is good to find this high level info.
On May 18, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Tom Samplonius wrote:
One item that I've researching that is a bit unclear, is that, can I can connect a SATA disk shelf (DS14mk2 AT) to a clustered set of FAS960 heads?
I think there is no problem. I assume that you must use the AT-FCx modules, as they are dual-looped. I suspect that the the AT-FCx is mandatory for clustering (as opposed to the AT-FC) , but NOW seems a bit vague, at least according to what I was able to find.
Also, I've heard rumors that connecting SATA shelves to a cluster is not really reliable. I was a bit taken a back, as NetApp as the SATA shelves have been out for a while. Is this really the case?
Tom