21 Sep
2006
21 Sep
'06
9 p.m.
Actually Netapp told us it's not a problem to replace a slower drive with a faster one. It's not good if you have a RG of fast drives to replace one with a slower drive, because that drags down the whole RG.
Yeah a read would have to wait for the slower disk to spin around to the proper block while all the faster disks have already provided the data.
-Matthew