SUMMARY: [Q] Can A5000 mix different size hard disk?

From: L <leed_at_chele.cais.net>
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 13:16:44 EDT
I got several answers.  Most answers are "YES".  You can mix different
size hard disks or different speed hard disks in A5000.  you may have
performance problem if you mix different spped hard disks for strip or
RAID.

To check hard disks spped use "iostat -E" or "luxadm".


 My original post: > We have SUN A5000 array on Ultra Sparc server
> (Solaris 2.6).  The A5000
> currently have all 9Gb hard disks in it.  my
> questions are:
> 
>   1. how can I detect the hard disk speed (5400, 
> 7200RPM?) in A5000?
> 
>   2. can I put 18GB or 36 Gb in it and mix with
> existed 9Gb?
> 
>   3. can I mix different speed 7200 with 10000rpm
> hard disk in A5000?
> 
> 
> Thank you for help. 
> 
Received on Fri Apr 20 18:16:44 2001

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