Good point, Thanks.

OK so what If I leave all 3 18gig shelves and just add 2 36 gig shelves. My question is still will having them 36gigs in their own group and part of the same volume be a problem as long as I leave 1 36 gig spare? Will I loose any capacity, or any other negative impact?

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 12:11, Joe Luchtenberg wrote:

This exceeds the max capacity of the F740. You could get away with 3x FC9 shelves with 36GB drives and 2x shelves with 18GB drives. See http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/hardware/NetApp/syscfg/scdot612/ind ex.htm.

Joe

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-----Original Message----- From: Eric Hester [mailto:erich@nuvox.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:36 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: adding different drive sizes to an existing volume

I have an F740 with 3 FC9 shelves loaded with 18gig drives. I have 3 FC9 shelves loaded with 36gig drives from another netapp I want to move to the F740.

If I add these drives to an existing volume but make them their own raid group, and leave one 36gig spare, that will not cause me any heartache will it?

-- Eric Hester Director of Systems Engineering NuVox Communications, Inc. 864.331.8171 eric@nuvox.net