7200rpm disks in SSA 210

Klorese, Roger B.A. rogerk@triton.veritas.com
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 09:02:05 -0700


On Wednesday, June 25, 1997 3:20 PM, joys@hsmpk12a-s2.Eng.Sun.COM
[SMTP:joys@hsmpk12a-s2.Eng.Sun.COM] wrote:
> > Does anyone know if the latest Sun 4.2GB 7200rpm drives (P/N X6509A)
> > are stable for use in a SSA 210? More specifically, can I mix them 
> > with the 5400rpm version in the same RSM tray? Is this (un)advisable?
> 
> Yes. Yes. Advisable, although you may want to try and keep same
> drives on same volumes for performance reasons (volume speed will
> be of slowest disk).

Note that if you're using Volume Manager, you can constrian volumes to
the same speed of disks.  See the vxassist man page.