So a friend of mine gave me an f330 and four DEC BA350 shelves. The f330 needs nvram batteries (and more nvram simms if anybody wants to get rid of some, but that can wait. It has four simms) but now the challenge is to give this thing as much storage as possible. Because of the BA350s I'm limited to 1" disks (1.6" don't fit well in the cans). I'm wondering what the biggest disks I can buy are? I've got four narrow scsi channels so I'm assuming I can get 28 disks attached to this thing. 28*36 is ~1tb raw capacity (I figure 700-800GB usable?) The question is, can I put 36 gig disks on an F330? If so which ones? If not, then which 18s work, which 9s? This is for a home network, mostly for archiving video projects and recorded TV shows so I'm not looking to buy disks direct from netapp, nor am I looking for support for the filer. I'm assuming that when (hopefully not "if") something comes of Bill's hobbiest program that I'll be able to get OS media and licenses from that. I guess this goes along with the "how far past spec can you push a toaster" ideas that have floated past recently.
daniel