ml350 g4

[mikem1007]

I have a server with 2 drives on raid 1 and 4 on raid 5. I want to upgrade all the raid 5 drives to 300gb, currently they are 146gb. Will I need to delete the old raid5 install new drives and set up a new raid or will it detect new drives and just establish them same raid config. what's the best procedure for this? The data is not important.

Thanks in advance
Mike

[Aaron Wolski]

If the data is not important; boot server, remove raid 5 array, ensure array adapter is running latest firmware, remove 146gb drivers, replace with 300gb drives, initialise new raid 5 array.

[Lord Pit]

Aaron has wright if the data aren't crucial to your busines (24/7) then just make new RAID 5. If you have service breakes (eg. 10pm-6am) then you can make backup of the data an then replace the drives and make new RAID 5. If not you need a backup server to sustain your busines.