My company is looking to buy a few netapp products and I have a question that you guys might be able to help with.
We're currently looking to get a FAS2040 paired with a fully populated 24 disk shelf running 2TB SATA drives. According to the SE working my account, I will be able to create one aggregate for all 24 drives. Now according to the netapp website, the maximum aggregate is 16 disks and or a volume size of 16TBs. Since I'm going to run 24 x 2TB disks, will I have to create multiple aggregates? I hope not since you lose two parity disks per aggregate.
Another question I have, what's the throughput from the FAS2040 controller to a external disk shelf? Again, according to the SE it's 12GB/s (he said it's four 3GB/s paths in one cable?). Now if I look at the product information on the netapp website, all it says is 3GB/s.
NetApp should either train their SEs to provide correct information, or update their product information. I'm confused.
Thanks!
