https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Splitting-drives-in-a-DS4486-tray-between-nodes-in-HA-pair/m-p/108944#M22675 That's bad idea and I am not sure if NetApp even allows it. For drive replacement both drives must be removed, so NetApp needs to evacuate second drive as well. For that both drives need to belong to the same node. Fri, 21 Aug 2015 05:21:08 GMT aborzenkov 2015-08-21T05:21:08Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Splitting-drives-in-a-DS4486-tray-between-nodes-in-HA-pair/m-p/108942#M22674 <P>Hi,</P><P>We're planning to split the disk drives in a DS4486 tray (<SPAN>in which two physical disks are housed per disk carrier) between 2 FAS3240 in a HA-Pair configuration. One node would own all the *L1 drives and the other *L2 drives. This is mainly for I/O balancing.</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is this advisable/recommended ? Any gotchas ? Anything we should watch out for ?.</P><P>Thanks.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:29:03 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Splitting-drives-in-a-DS4486-tray-between-nodes-in-HA-pair/m-p/108942#M22674 Truyen_Vo 2025-06-04T23:29:03Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Splitting-drives-in-a-DS4486-tray-between-nodes-in-HA-pair/m-p/108944#M22675 That's bad idea and I am not sure if NetApp even allows it. For drive replacement both drives must be removed, so NetApp needs to evacuate second drive as well. For that both drives need to belong to the same node. Fri, 21 Aug 2015 05:21:08 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Splitting-drives-in-a-DS4486-tray-between-nodes-in-HA-pair/m-p/108944#M22675 aborzenkov 2015-08-21T05:21:08Z