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Changing HardDisk
I know this is a very simple question but I tried googling and couldn't get a good answer. Can anyone help me with how to properly change a hard disk in a Dell PowerEdge R530 server? The hard disk is full and I want to change them without causing any data loss. The server uses RAID 5 and two of the hard disk are full.
Thanks in advance.
PS. am a beginner.
DELL-Shine K
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Posted November 21st, 2020 22:00
To increase the size on raid you can either replace the drives with larger size drives using replace member feature then use Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) feature to increase the size of the virtual disk. Another option is to add additional drives to the backplane and use OCE feature to increase number of drives in RAID 5 which will in turn increase the space of RAID 5. Above can be done only if you have supported RAID controller. Can you let me know which storage controller you have on the server?