topic Re: Swap a disk between filers? in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1124#M121 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Good stuff…</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:23:58 GMT paulstringfellow 2014-01-30T23:23:58Z Swap a disk between filers? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1111#M118 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>So, I need to swap disks from an older out of maint filer, onto a newer out of maint filer....I *think* I should just unown spare disks, and then </P><P>own them on the new filer, as they're both the same physically, and both systems are on 8.1 releases. Am I right? or am I about to get it all</P><P>horribly wrong.....</P><P></P><P>`Mark</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:44:26 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1111#M118 mark_flint 2025-06-05T05:44:26Z Re: Swap a disk between filers? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1115#M119 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sounds OK in theory….</P><P></P><P>Never done it though.</P><P></P><P>Just need to make sure the firmware revisions are in your disk file for the new controllers you are moving to…and in theory should be OK.</P><P></P><P>Maybe worth a NetApp support question though ,just in caese.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:41:22 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1115#M119 paulstringfellow 2014-01-30T11:41:22Z Re: Swap a disk between filers? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1121#M120 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It worked 'as advertised' <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/happy.gif"></SPAN>&nbsp; As long as the disk is ok, and you unown it, it works</P><P>just like a normal disk replacement.</P><P></P><P>`Mark</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:47:48 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1121#M120 mark_flint 2014-01-30T11:47:48Z Re: Swap a disk between filers? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1124#M121 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Good stuff…</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:23:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Swap-a-disk-between-filers/m-p/1124#M121 paulstringfellow 2014-01-30T23:23:58Z