topic Re: Aggregate Setup and Disk Size in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Aggregate-Setup-and-Disk-Size/m-p/79223#M5573 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It actually doesn't look like this buys me much as far as useable space goes. If I create a 11 disk aggregate w/ all 2TB drives the usable size is 13.1 TB. The two mixed aggregates I was referring to in my first post would be 6.55 TB usable. I think going to go for the one large aggregate to avoid mixing disk sizes.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:19:28 GMT todd_horne 2010-10-14T18:19:28Z Aggregate Setup and Disk Size https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Aggregate-Setup-and-Disk-Size/m-p/79218#M5572 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a new shelf of 2TB SATA drives (14 total). I also have a 2 drives left over that are 1TB SATA (So that's 16 total disks). Would it be OK to create two 7 disk aggregates, with each aggregate having one of the 1TB drives mixed with the 2TB drives? The remaining two 2TB drives would be used as hot spares.</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:07:08 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Aggregate-Setup-and-Disk-Size/m-p/79218#M5572 todd_horne 2025-06-05T07:07:08Z Re: Aggregate Setup and Disk Size https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Aggregate-Setup-and-Disk-Size/m-p/79223#M5573 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It actually doesn't look like this buys me much as far as useable space goes. If I create a 11 disk aggregate w/ all 2TB drives the usable size is 13.1 TB. The two mixed aggregates I was referring to in my first post would be 6.55 TB usable. I think going to go for the one large aggregate to avoid mixing disk sizes.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:19:28 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Aggregate-Setup-and-Disk-Size/m-p/79223#M5573 todd_horne 2010-10-14T18:19:28Z Re: Aggregate Setup and Disk Size https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Aggregate-Setup-and-Disk-Size/m-p/79227#M5574 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Don't forget to keep spares.&nbsp; The 1TB cannot act as spares for an AGGR built out of all 2TB disks. </P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:36:41 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Aggregate-Setup-and-Disk-Size/m-p/79227#M5574 loudymanschwab 2010-10-14T18:36:41Z