topic Re: FAS8020 - SATA Configuration in ONTAP Hardware

FAS8020 - SATA Configuration

HenryUK — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:48:30 GMT

Hello

I have a FAS8020 Cluster-mode set up as a SAS/SSD Hybrid which is going all well

but i also have a DS4246 with 24x2TB Sata drive that i need to gain the most capacity out of - we are not using this storage yet and it is set up with only 27TB of space which i would of thought should give me alot more

what would be best raid setup be if it was going to blow it away and start again

Re: FAS8020 - SATA Configuration

rwelshman — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:18:39 GMT

what version of DOT are you running? The maximum for SATA disks in a single raid group is typically 20, so that would leave 4 spares, with two for parity, leaves 18 x 2TB for data.

I would do one raid group of 20.

Re: FAS8020 - SATA Configuration

aborzenkov — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:26:00 GMT

2x11 RG gives the same 18 data disks with greatly improved rebuild time.

Re: FAS8020 - SATA Configuration

rwelshman — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 17:34:57 GMT

Good point, RG size of 11 would be good, also leaves only 2 spares instead of 4 idle disks.

Re: FAS8020 - SATA Configuration

HenryUK — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:02:22 GMT

thanks for the replies

i am running DOT: 8.3

what would be the max capacity i would get from these configurations?

Re: FAS8020 - SATA Configuration

Stefan-Reitmeier — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 06:27:36 GMT

for sata 2tb disk it should be around 1.64tb per data disks. so with raiddp 2x11rg you should get 18x1.64=29.5tb. One rg with 18 data disks would be same size, but you only have 2 parity disks instead of 4. But you have 4 spares 🙂

With an update of another 24 disk you could go for 3x15rg for example with only 3 spares.

If you have a spare ssd storage pool partition you should think about adding one to your sata aggregate as they really help with io bottlenecks on sata drives.