topic RAID Controller in AFF

RAID Controller

DHAKSHINAMOORTHY_B — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:24:42 GMT

Hi Team,

Whether NetApp FAS, AFF, ASA uses Hardware Based RAID controllers? or it is handled by ONTAP itself?

Re: RAID Controller

akiendl — Fri, 14 May 2021 05:25:42 GMT

ONTAP uses software RAID and all logic for it is within ONTAP.

ak.

Re: RAID Controller

TMACMD — Fri, 14 May 2021 10:25:06 GMT

NetApp has always used software raid.

NetApp is the only company where the file system and RAID and the operating system were designed where they all know about one another from the very beginning. Raid wasn’t an afterthought, it wasn’t “bolted” on like other players

The design makes the difference