Patrick,

You will not be able to use larger than 2TB disks in a DS14mk2AT shelf. This is due to a 32-bit LBA value in the firmware on the controllers.

Thank you, Tim

From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of RM Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 8:32 AM To: toasters@teaparty.net Lists Subject: Re: re-purposing older NetApps?

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.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net <toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net> on behalf of Patrick Giagnocavo <xemacs5@gmail.commailto:xemacs5@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 10:54 To: toasters@teaparty.netmailto: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