No, just put the drive in then ASSIGN it as a Hot-Spare in the OpenManage software. The PERC will take care of it from there when a drive fails.
Be careful with your use of the term BACKUP. I'm not sure what you mean by "future proof my backup drives" and "fail over a bad disks data from the backup". There is nothing about RAID that is a "backup". Backups should be performed on top of and separately from RAID.
Thanks for the clarification on RAID not being backup, wrong terminology on my end then. I can't seem to get the Openmanage software working with my system for whatever reason, I tend to go into the PERC when i configure new drives directly. So what i'm gathering is that the drives do need to be set as a hot spare ahead of time correct?
As you are looking new disk specifically for this RAID 10 you can go with configuring new drive as Dedicated Hot spare for this RAID 10. This way new disk will come in to play when any disk failed in RAID 10 array.
You can refer section "Managing Dedicated Hot Spares " on page 48 of below link on steps to configure disk as Dedicated hotspare.
Thanks to all for your comments! I'll probably just have to wait and see when/if it happens anytime soon that a drive fails. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, but i think i just need to see it in action.
DELL-Charles R
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December 30th, 2021 06:00
Hello the.mknabster,
You don't have to format the drive before installing.
You can do this while in the controller BIOS:
Insert the drive, set it as Hot Spare.
If it detects data on the drive it will show as Foreign. Clear the foreign then set it as Hot Spare.
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December 29th, 2021 07:00
No, just put the drive in then ASSIGN it as a Hot-Spare in the OpenManage software. The PERC will take care of it from there when a drive fails.
Be careful with your use of the term BACKUP. I'm not sure what you mean by "future proof my backup drives" and "fail over a bad disks data from the backup". There is nothing about RAID that is a "backup". Backups should be performed on top of and separately from RAID.
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December 30th, 2021 05:00
Thanks for the clarification on RAID not being backup, wrong terminology on my end then. I can't seem to get the Openmanage software working with my system for whatever reason, I tend to go into the PERC when i configure new drives directly. So what i'm gathering is that the drives do need to be set as a hot spare ahead of time correct?
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December 30th, 2021 18:00
As you are looking new disk specifically for this RAID 10 you can go with configuring new drive as Dedicated Hot spare for this RAID 10. This way new disk will come in to play when any disk failed in RAID 10 array.
You can refer section "Managing Dedicated Hot Spares " on page 48 of below link on steps to configure disk as Dedicated hotspare.
https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/rc_h310_h710_h710p_h810_ug_en-us.pdf
the.mknabster
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Thanks to all for your comments! I'll probably just have to wait and see when/if it happens anytime soon that a drive fails. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, but i think i just need to see it in action.