It simply amazes me still how some people can take a piece of expensive sophisticated technology and treat it like it was a free giveaway or something. A disk has failed in an older DS14 shelf 144 GB 10k fc (Part X274) and the admin replaced it with a run of the mill brand disk hoping it would replace it because it is 'just' a RAID array ;).
We have some spare newer 144 GB 10k disks for DS14mk2/4 lying about, do they fit with these older shelve types?
Current disks report as:
NETAPP X274_HPYTA146F10 NA02 136.0GB 520B/sec
They will/should work just fine.
The disks are "keyed". On the older style disks, you will notice a narrow notch on the cast aluminum of the connector side of the disk. This is a "1Gb/s" capable disk
The newer "2Gb/sec" capable disk is notched with a wider notch. This allows it to work in the new shelves (2G/sec) and also in the older shelves since the wider notch works in the same space as the narrow one.
The 1Gb/sec disk however, will not work in a 2Gb/sec shelf as the connection point at the notch will not fit.
Only netapp disks work with NetApp heads.
Your admin friend is luck s/he did not crash your filer by accidentally tickling some off the wall the disk compatibility bug.
--tmac
Delorean7 wrote:
It simply amazes me still how some people can take a piece of expensive sophisticated technology and treat it like it was a free giveaway or something. A disk has failed in an older DS14 shelf 144 GB 10k fc (Part X274) and the admin replaced it with a run of the mill brand disk hoping it would replace it because it is 'just' a RAID array ;).
We have some spare newer 144 GB 10k disks for DS14mk2/4 lying about, do they fit with these older shelve types?
Current disks report as:
NETAPP X274_HPYTA146F10 NA02 136.0GB 520B/sec
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Delorean7 drenthjd@wxs.nl wrote:
It simply amazes me still how some people can take a piece of expensive sophisticated technology and treat it like it was a free giveaway or something. A disk has failed in an older DS14 shelf 144 GB 10k fc (Part X274) and the admin replaced it with a run of the mill brand disk hoping it would replace it because it is 'just' a RAID array ;).
We have some spare newer 144 GB 10k disks for DS14mk2/4 lying about, do they fit with these older shelve types?
Current disks report as:
NETAPP X274_HPYTA146F10 NA02 136.0GB 520B/sec
sounds like your typical windows "admin".
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