"jason" == Jason Lavoie jason@mint.net writes:
jason> Netapp tells me that I can't buy 9GB drives anymore. They've jason> proposed upgrading to a new shelf full of 18GB drives, and jason> trading in the existing shelf. Needless to say, the price is jason> exorbitant compared to just adding a couple 9GB drives as we jason> had expected. I'm looking for alternatives.
Yep, stopped selling them a while back, much to my chagrin. With the 36gb drives coming out, I'd almost sorta expect the price on the 18gb drives to drop, but...
jason> Is anyone selling old 9GB drives for Netapp? If so, please jason> contact me directly so we can work something out.
I'm just about to trade-in a bunch of them. Maybe be rep would sell 'em to ya. ;-)
jason> Does anyone have any information on how/where to source jason> non-Netapp drives that will work in our system?
Eh. You're not planning on keeping your NetApp support, then ?
jason> Can I use 18GB drives in this shelf (and only use the first 9GB jason> of each)? I've gotten conflicting answers about this from jason> Netapp.
Don't Do That. It Hurts. Unless those are old 9gb FC-AL disks. Mixing SCSI and FC-AL works, but perfomance drops off quite a lot. We just stopped doing that this weekend, and our 760 is *much* happier...
K.