Extend Storage on Hp Proliant DL380 G5

[safwan901143]

Hello experts,

I need guide how to extend the storage capacity on my server. Currently I already have 3x72gb storage on my server slot. I want to add another 2 or 3 hard disk to increase the storage of the server. Curently the server use  RAID -5 with windows  2003. i have a few question :

1) do i need to reconfigure server including formatting in order to add storage size?

2) Did the file that already in the storage will be missing if the storage are increase?

I really hope that anybody can help me to solve the problem.

Thanks ..

[Suman_1978]

Hi,

DL380 G5 can take upto 8 SFF SAS hard drives.

You may add additional hard drives if controller supports.

A battery backed write cache may be required to Expand and Extend the array once additional hard drives are installed.

Refer to this document for more information.

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03510253

Its always recommended to take a valid backup of your data before doing any such activity.

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