https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/reconfigure-raid0-virtual/m-p/4180353#M26751 We have a virtual disk configured as RAID 0 and I would like to reconfigure it as RAID 5 but we have only one spare disk slot and 4 hot spare disks.<BR /><BR />As we don't have enough disk space I am thinking to use 4 300GB disks and use 3 hot spare disks plus the empty slot on the array to configure the new RAID5 and then copy the current virtual disk to the new created virtual disks.<BR /><BR />This will leave the Array with only one spare disk for few days.<BR /><BR />I would be appreciate if anyone could please advice me or give me some tips.<BR /><BR />The array is HSG80 and the server is w2k3.<BR /><BR />Thanks<BR /><BR />Mohammad<BR /> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:55:20 GMT mshhasan 2008-04-15T13:55:20Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/reconfigure-raid0-virtual/m-p/4180353#M26751 We have a virtual disk configured as RAID 0 and I would like to reconfigure it as RAID 5 but we have only one spare disk slot and 4 hot spare disks.<BR /><BR />As we don't have enough disk space I am thinking to use 4 300GB disks and use 3 hot spare disks plus the empty slot on the array to configure the new RAID5 and then copy the current virtual disk to the new created virtual disks.<BR /><BR />This will leave the Array with only one spare disk for few days.<BR /><BR />I would be appreciate if anyone could please advice me or give me some tips.<BR /><BR />The array is HSG80 and the server is w2k3.<BR /><BR />Thanks<BR /><BR />Mohammad<BR /> Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:55:20 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/reconfigure-raid0-virtual/m-p/4180353#M26751 mshhasan 2008-04-15T13:55:20Z