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.
Jeff Bryer wrote:
By simple division it would be about 21 disks. Which would translate to a shelf and a half. Given the raid group size is 14 (max 16) for ATA disks, it would get pretty wasteful if you're trying to maximize your aggregate size. 3 shelves would give you 2 aggregates but you'd need 4 raid groups (8 drives gone to parity).
I hope NetApp will raise the max raw aggregate size soon. I
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:20:08PM +0000, Tim McCarthy wrote:
I am running GX but the vol/aggr code is supposed to be the same.
I have 26 disks of 750 per head. I played at the beginning and think I was limited to 21 or 22 disks in an aggregate.
It did take the better part of the day to re-zero the disks again
They right size to I think 632gb
--tmac
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-----Original Message----- From: "Stephen C. Losen" scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:38:13 To:toasters@mathworks.com Subject: How many 750G disks can can fit into an aggregate?
We're going to buy some shelves of 750G ATA drives. An aggregate is limited to 16T "raw" (which I presume includes parity disks). Not having any 750G drives yet, we don't know what they size down to. Can anyone tell us how many 750G disks (including parity) that you can stuff into an aggregate?
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support