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Mirror Shelf (or other creative ideas for out of support shelves)

victorcharlesedwards
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Has anyone done anything interesting with shelves that are no longer under support?  We have three 2Gbps AT-FCX shelves (loaded with 750GB SATA drives) that are no longer covered under our support contract.  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.  If there some way to RAID1 two shelves?  Thanks for any creative ideas!

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aborzenkov
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There is SyncMirror which is effectively RAID40 (meaning, you mirror two aggregates in RAID4 - or RAID_DP).

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