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Raid 5 Disk changing
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I have Raid 5 with 4 disks. And one hdd is failed I want to change that hdd. I buy same size and model HDD the HDD is Unallocated do I need to format HDD before I put into my Raid device?
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I have Raid 5 with 4 disks. And one hdd is failed I want to change that hdd. I buy same size and model HDD the HDD is Unallocated do I need to format HDD before I put into my Raid device?
Thanks
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See this for more info : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738360(WS.10).aspx
You probably need to go into your raid mangement software and include this drive into the array. Is this drive a hot spare?
It's pure guesswork until you tell us whether you have a RAID controller or not and if so which make / model.
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