[rescue] Re: Cheap netapp

[Robert Novak]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:10:37AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> speaking of which, i now have just about everything i need, i just
> need some disks.  does anyone know what the maximum size disks and
> what model they need to be (if any) that i can put on an F330?

Assuming SCSI, I believe 9GB is the highest supported. ST19171W or
ST19171WC is likely to be your cheapest option; Disk Depot in
Sunnyvale/Santa Clara has EMC firmware models for $15ish in qty 10+ on
ebay (ID is "corpsys") or on their diskdepot.com website. 

Get native Seagate firmware onto them and they'll be about as cost
effective on the disk level as IDE. 60GB usable, more or less, before
snapshots are separated... $105ish. And you have the benefit of 7 drives
to spread the load across, and some fault resilience to boot. 

The F330 shouldn't care what enclosure they're in, although for ultimate
coolness you want a Storageworks enclosure or four. :-) 

I think you can run up to an 18GB FC disk on the F330 if you find a FC
card that's supported under your OS. It's a two-step figuring-out process.
Find a card that's supported and then find disks that are supported.
Diskdepot has some nice FC enclosures that are at least close to the style
that Netapp has used. Look under "Fiber Channel Array Systems" and get the
drive spec before you buy--make sure they're supported. 

--Rob



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