Straying outside the HWU re: compatibility

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Hi, 
I'm curious if there is any leeway in supported hardware for EOA/EOS systems, such as a FAS8020.  Have a customer running 8.2.3 7-mode and wanting to add about 800TB of capacity, but we want to use larger drives than the officially-supported max of 6TB per spindle.  I do see at higher ONTAP versions, more supported disks come into the fold, but was wondering if anyone had successfully gone outside of the HWU boundaries before. 
Thanks!

[JonathanGaudette · Accepted solution]

The real answer here is "YMMV".

It is possible the system may run okay with unsupported disks (for that ONTAP version).

The only way to know is to try.

It is not supported, which means NetApp cannot assist with any issues encountered with using the newer disks.

Just make sure the DQP is updated and there's a chance that ONTAP will use the disks.