topic Re: DS in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/DS/m-p/70684#M5000 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Sabeer</P><P></P><P>Is this a single controller system or dual? </P><P>How would you like to assign the drives to controllers (in numbers. eg: 12-12)? as minimum 3 drives is necessary to make controller up.</P><P></P><P>Ankit Bindal</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:19:38 GMT ankitbindal 2012-04-03T13:19:38Z DS https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/DS/m-p/70681#M4999 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello ,</P><P>I am Sabeer , working for Renault Nissan in India.</P><P>I have a query</P><P>What will be the usable space of DS4243 24 drives of 600gb SAS DISKS provided if we go for double parity.</P><P>J M S</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:30:40 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/DS/m-p/70681#M4999 jmsabeer123 2025-06-05T06:30:40Z Re: DS https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/DS/m-p/70684#M5000 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Sabeer</P><P></P><P>Is this a single controller system or dual? </P><P>How would you like to assign the drives to controllers (in numbers. eg: 12-12)? as minimum 3 drives is necessary to make controller up.</P><P></P><P>Ankit Bindal</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:19:38 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/DS/m-p/70684#M5000 ankitbindal 2012-04-03T13:19:38Z Re: DS https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/DS/m-p/70688#M5001 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If it's a dual controller system you will get approx 6.7TB usable space creating 2 aggregates (1 on each controller) with 12 drives each. and 20% snapshot reserve. (calculations: 18 data drives 4 parity and 2 spare)</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:27:42 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/DS/m-p/70688#M5001 ankitbindal 2012-04-03T13:27:42Z