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Thanks ndivani,<br />
I know that I can move the data to external device and then replace the disks and move back the data.<br />
But I need to transfer back and forth almost 600 giga and it will take me forever , that's way I am looking for a much faster solution.<br />

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Thanks ndivani,
I know that I can move the data to external device and then replace the disks and move back the data.
But I need to transfer back and forth almost 600 giga and it will take me forever , that's way I am looking for a much faster solution.


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last time i had 680 Gb data to be transferred with dl380. I upgraded like that :<br />
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- i plugged newer disks to another server for temporary.<br />
- I transferred current data to newer disks<br />
- Then replaced disks . <br />
&nbsp;This way is faster than first suggestion.If your servers have connection each others with backbones then speed will be better. <br />
Regards
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last time i had 680 Gb data to be transferred with dl380. I upgraded like that :

- i plugged newer disks to another server for temporary.
- I transferred current data to newer disks
- Then replaced disks .
 This way is faster than first suggestion.If your servers have connection each others with backbones then speed will be better.
Regards

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O.K. <br />
I dont have the privilege of Another server &nbsp;, &nbsp;So Back to the external disk solution :(
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O.K.
I dont have the privilege of Another server  ,  So Back to the external disk solution :(

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Hi all,<br />
I have HP DL380G5 with 8 SAS disks , I need to replace 6 of his SAS Disk with bigger ones (from 146 giga to 500 giga) . is there &nbsp;a way to replace the SAS disks online/offline one by one ?
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Hi all,
I have HP DL380G5 with 8 SAS disks , I need to replace 6 of his SAS Disk with bigger ones (from 146 giga to 500 giga) . is there  a way to replace the SAS disks online/offline one by one ?

What is the best practice of Replacing SAS Disk on HP DL380 G5 ?

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