Toasters,
Inherited a few production 7-mode systems that are off maintenance,
due to be retired and pretty low on spare disks. Migrations to new
ONTAP 9 systems (A300's, yay!) are in progress but I'd like to
purchase several spare disks for the 7-mode systems as a safety
measure. Unfortunately, these disks are so old that NetApp no longer
sells them.
Is it generally safe to purchase refurbished (or new) NetApp disks
from a 3rd party? Can anybody recommend a vendor?
I already grabbed quotes from our NetApp account team for lager
capacity disks that I'm told won't be a problem for existing RAID
groups made up of smaller disks. Primary concern is keeping the data
safe/available so, if purchasing 3rd party is a bad idea, we'll
definitely to through NetApp.
3rd party options always come up in discussions and we've never gotten
outside feedback so just curious if anybody has had good or bad
experiences going 3rd party.
Thank you.
Phil
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Inherited a few production 7-mode systems that are off maintenance,
due to be retired and pretty low on spare disks. Migrations to new
ONTAP 9 systems (A300's, yay!) are in progress but I'd like to
purchase several spare disks for the 7-mode systems as a safety
measure. Unfortunately, these disks are so old that NetApp no longer
sells them.
Is it generally safe to purchase refurbished (or new) NetApp disks
from a 3rd party? Can anybody recommend a vendor?
I already grabbed quotes from our NetApp account team for lager
capacity disks that I'm told won't be a problem for existing RAID
groups made up of smaller disks. Primary concern is keeping the data
safe/available so, if purchasing 3rd party is a bad idea, we'll
definitely to through NetApp.
3rd party options always come up in discussions and we've never gotten
outside feedback so just curious if anybody has had good or bad
experiences going 3rd party.
Thank you.
Phil
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