Is it possible to have both 144G and 300G disks in the same aggregate, but different raid groups? I can't seem to find any documentation on this.
I tried using the ONTAP Simulator to test this, but the simulator seems to have a bug because I was able to add disks of multiple differing sizes to the same raid group (without right sizing them to a common size) and I was even able to add a smaller disk to a raid group of larger disks.
-- Wes Hardin
Yes, you can do this. And the sim isn't showing a bug, that's what ONTAP would do. It's just not a good idea to mix drive sizes within the same RAID group. You're begging for performance issues if you do so.
-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Wes Hardin [mailto:whardin@dalsemi.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:47 PM To: NetApp Toasters List Subject: Same aggregate, different size disks?
Is it possible to have both 144G and 300G disks in the same aggregate, but different raid groups? I can't seem to find any documentation on this.
I tried using the ONTAP Simulator to test this, but the simulator seems to have a bug because I was able to add disks of multiple differing sizes to the same raid group (without right sizing them to a common size) and I was even able to add a smaller disk to a raid group of larger disks.
-- Wes Hardin
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