topic Mirror Shelf (or other creative ideas for out of support shelves) in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Mirror-Shelf-or-other-creative-ideas-for-out-of-support-shelves/m-p/69993#M4940 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Has anyone done anything interesting with shelves that are no longer under support?&nbsp; We have three 2Gbps AT-FCX shelves (loaded with 750GB SATA drives) that are no longer covered under our support contract.&nbsp; We realize they are a liability for tier 1 since the hardware can no longer be replaced / troubleshot, but it feels a shame to just throw them out since its 25TBs of useable space.&nbsp; If there some way to RAID1 two shelves?&nbsp; Thanks for any creative ideas!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:34:29 GMT victorcharlesedwards 2025-06-05T06:34:29Z Mirror Shelf (or other creative ideas for out of support shelves) https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Mirror-Shelf-or-other-creative-ideas-for-out-of-support-shelves/m-p/69993#M4940 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Has anyone done anything interesting with shelves that are no longer under support?&nbsp; We have three 2Gbps AT-FCX shelves (loaded with 750GB SATA drives) that are no longer covered under our support contract.&nbsp; We realize they are a liability for tier 1 since the hardware can no longer be replaced / troubleshot, but it feels a shame to just throw them out since its 25TBs of useable space.&nbsp; If there some way to RAID1 two shelves?&nbsp; Thanks for any creative ideas!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:34:29 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Mirror-Shelf-or-other-creative-ideas-for-out-of-support-shelves/m-p/69993#M4940 victorcharlesedwards 2025-06-05T06:34:29Z Re: Mirror Shelf (or other creative ideas for out of support shelves) https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Mirror-Shelf-or-other-creative-ideas-for-out-of-support-shelves/m-p/69999#M4941 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>There is SyncMirror which is effectively RAID40 <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="happy"></SPAN> (meaning, you mirror two aggregates in RAID4 - or RAID_DP).</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:58:22 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Mirror-Shelf-or-other-creative-ideas-for-out-of-support-shelves/m-p/69999#M4941 aborzenkov 2012-02-18T05:58:22Z