Not sure about the shelves but I do know the SATA drives themselves seem to work just fine attached to a whitebox motherboard. I didn't have to engage any oddball linux disk utils to alter cluster sizes or anything.
RM
From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net <toasters-bounces@teaparty.net> on behalf of Patrick Giagnocavo <xemacs5@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 10:54
To: toasters@teaparty.net Lists
Subject: re-purposing older NetApps?
Curious, what happens with older NetApps - is there a way to
re-purpose them that makes sense?
I have been told that the DS14MK2-AT shelves can be used as JBOD disk
shelves with regular non-Netapp-firmwared drives - is this true? If
so, would it support the >2TB drives that are out these days?
(I have access to a 6 or 7 shelf 3070 with 56x1TB drives and some
500GB's ; what scares me is not the size of the rack, but the size of
the likely power bill! )
Cheers
Patrick