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You have 2 choices<br />
1. boot to the raid controller and create a new array with the new drives<br />
2. install open manage and do the same thing within windows
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You have 2 choices
1. boot to the raid controller and create a new array with the new drives
2. install open manage and do the same thing within windows

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Will the new array require 3 drives?
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I was hoping for a more detailed response.
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I was hoping for a more detailed response.

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We need to add disk to our PDC which is also running exchange. &nbsp;We have 3 free drive bays and I want to populate them and define them as a new drive letter. &nbsp;The current 3 drives are raid 5. &nbsp;Can I just plug these in and they will automatically be added to the existing raid array?<br />
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We are not running Open Manage.
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We need to add disk to our PDC which is also running exchange.  We have 3 free drive bays and I want to populate them and define them as a new drive letter.  The current 3 drives are raid 5.  Can I just plug these in and they will automatically be added to the existing raid array?

We are not running Open Manage.

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