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Hp smart array - increase capacity

Hi all,

Have a hp proliant dl380 G6 with a smart array p410 and 8 drive bays.

Os volume is raid 1 using 2 bays.
Data volume is raid 5 using 6 bays.

The data volume is at capacity and I need to increase it but obviously there's no free bays left. All disks are 145gb sas.  

Can I, one by one and waiting until the array has rebuilt after each swap, swap the disks for 300gb sas disks?
Will the smart array see the extra space after all disks have been replaced with the bigger ones?

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RAID 5 does not work like that.  If you put a 600GB in there it will become a 145GB.
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Yeah I know, but my point is that after all disks have been swapped, will the array controller see the extra space and allow me to allocate it?
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I mean, I know that on a single disk swap to a larger capacity disk, the controller will only use the capacity of the previous disk and the rest is not usable. The controller will even tell you that. But when all disks are upgraded with larger ones, the same amount of free disk space will be available across the array.
So I was wondering if the controller would be smart enough to recognise this and allow the space to be allocated.
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