Replacing Disk in RAID Array

[fenno25]

Hi Guys,

We have a few HP DL360 G5 servers, with a 3 disk RAID array, I was wondering if one disk fails, does the replacement disk (once minimum same size) need to be a blank disk, for example we have a test server and I was wondering if something happened one of the disk in my production servers could I just take a disk from the test server and put into the production server? If not is there a way to allow me to do this? Im new to RAID so excuse my stupidy if im asking a stupid question!!

Thanks

[Suman_1978]

Hi,

If the disk fails, then replace it with another disk of same or higher capacity.

You can refer to this doc for more information.

https://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=mmr_kc-0128606

Thank You!
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[fenno25]

Hi Thanks for the reply, does it matter if there is data already on the disk or if the disk was part of another RAID configuration