Hi, I have a 'replace SMART drive' alert on one of drives on my Proliant DL 380 Server. There are three drives in a RAID 5 setup (distributed data guarding). The OS is windows 2003 and the server looks fine, for now.
How should I go about replacing this drive? Should I buy a new drive (exactly same size as the current ones), plug it it and let it rebuild? Each drive is around 72 GB. Do I need to do any configurations through the array configuration utility? How much time does it take to rebuild?
And I assume I can replace the drive while the OS is running?
Sorry for the basic questions, but I am more of a network person rather than a systems person and this has been kind of forced on me.
Thanks very much for your suggestons!
How should I go about replacing this drive? Should I buy a new drive (exactly same size as the current ones), plug it it and let it rebuild? Each drive is around 72 GB. Do I need to do any configurations through the array configuration utility? How much time does it take to rebuild?
And I assume I can replace the drive while the OS is running?
Sorry for the basic questions, but I am more of a network person rather than a systems person and this has been kind of forced on me.
Thanks very much for your suggestons!