I have a customer who has an E-Series system with 10TB drives going EOSL at End of 2023 - can they buy eg 12TB or 16TB drives and replace failed 10TB drives with them? RAID or DDP.
#Can you replace E-Series drives with larger ones?
remote ibex
i think you can but drive will be write size limited to 10TB
and the drives should come from NetApp depots
ofcourse the systems shoudl hve valid support contrcts
with these limitations, not sure who they would get a higher drive size for a replacement of 10TB drive
do the systems have support contract beyond EOSL dates of the 10TB drives
let us say they decide to replace all of thier 10TB drives with 12 TB as a HW upgrade, they need to procure additional raw capacity licenses from NetApp in order for the additional drive capacity to be usable
mystic gate
Looks like the will right-size.
here as well - https://www.netapp.com/media/12421-tr4652.pdf page 14
remote ibex
here as well - https://www.netapp.com/media/12421-tr4652.pdf page 14
you get bonus points now
vernal glade
Customer is planning on buying a drive pack of 12s or something to keep the system going past EOSL. So it will be from NetApp, but not under support
Thanks folks
remote ibex
have you thought of suggesting tech refresh of e-series with storage grid may be 5712's
that comes with 4,8 or 12 TB drives in this case you can suggest 12TB drives
that would be 200TB usable
vernal glade
It is a.. very large system that they took a very long time to implement, so tech refresh is not appropriate at this time. But thanks for the suggestion
steel bison
Just out of curiosity...
Adding new 20x 18 TB drives to a 48x 16 TB DDP Pool will increase 232.296 GiB in capacity.
Creating a new DDP Pool using the same 20x 18TB drives will generate 232.844 GiB capacity.
548 GiB difference only.
Preservation Capacity is 4 Drives.
It seems not to be a big deal.
vernal glade
MiB? 😄