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Raid Group Sizing on FAS6070

neilwilson — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:50:22 GMT

We are have recently upgraded our FAS6070 to Data OnTap 8.0.2 - we now need to update it to a more optimal configuration.

The FAS6070 currently has 524 x 500GB disks.

4 disks will be used for aggr0 leaving 520 disks.

We are looking at 2 options for RAID Group Sizing - 16 or 19 disk RAID Groups

With 16 disk RAID groups we would get:

2 aggregates each consisting of 256 disks (16 RG) giving approx usable aggr size of 154TB (77TB in each aggregate)

Leaving 8 disks spare

With 19 disk RAID groups we would get:

2 aggregates 1 with 247 disks (13 RG) and the other with 266 disks (14 RG) giving approx usable aggr size of 161TB (83TB in 1 aggregate, 77TB in the other aggregate)

Leaving 7 disks spare

Are there any performance disadvantages to using 19 disk RAID groups, as compared to using 16 disk RAID groups?

We obviously want to get the maximum storage capacity possible but also want to avoid unecessary risk or performance degradation.

Any advice would be helpful.

Raid Group Sizing on FAS6070

peter_lehmann — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:39:38 GMT

Hi Neil

Remember the max aggr size of 100TB...

Beside that, there are no performance disadvantages by going for the 19 disk/rg version.

Regards

Peter

Raid Group Sizing on FAS6070

radek_kubka — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:45:26 GMT

Hi,

First of all, with FAS6070 you have a 100TB limit for a 64-bit aggregate (unless something has changed between 8.0.1 & 8.0.2).

RAID group size mainly impacts a rebuild time, should any drive fail in that group - the bigger the group is, the longer it takes.

Regards,

Radek

Re: Raid Group Sizing on FAS6070

neilwilson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:45:52 GMT

Oops the sizes I put are total across all aggregates. Ill correct my post.

All the aggregates are within the 100TB limit.