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Great.. wasn't sure if I'd be stuck with 3 x 2TB with only 500GB on each available.<br />
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Thanks again..<br />
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Mat
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Great.. wasn't sure if I'd be stuck with 3 x 2TB with only 500GB on each available.

Thanks again..

Mat

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I have a HP Proliant server with a P410i raid card with a BBWC. There are 3 x 500GB drives in RAID 5. If I was to swap the 3 x 500GB drives (one at a time) with 3 x 2TB drives would I be able to expand the capacity.. then afterwards extend the logical drive?<br />
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Thanks<br />
<br />
Mat
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I have a HP Proliant server with a P410i raid card with a BBWC. There are 3 x 500GB drives in RAID 5. If I was to swap the 3 x 500GB drives (one at a time) with 3 x 2TB drives would I be able to expand the capacity.. then afterwards extend the logical drive?

Thanks

Mat

Expand HP RAID 5 Array

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.