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How to replace a Raid-5 Hard Drive.

Hello:

We had a hick-up this morning and it had to do with a bad hard drive on our HP Storage works MSA 20 Hard Drive cage.  more specifically 1 of the hard drives went bad (display is showing "84 Drive Failure Box#1 Bay 11")

This area references some server storage area.  This is a Raid-5 Array and the replacement drive kicked in and everything was restored about 8 minutes later.

Now we are in the process of ordering a few replacement hard drives (we have none in stock).  my question is can I just swap this hard drive just like any other Raid-5 hard drive array?  Hot-Swappable, pull the bad hard drive out and slide the new hard drive in?

And how long will it take to propagate the data to the new drive?
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When, I meant replacement drive kicked in, I meant the 'Hot-Spare'.  

And its probably a good idea to speak with someone that is familiar with the unit(hard drive cage).  Its not a bad idea to get a 2nd oppinnion.