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Replace drives in RAID 5

I have a Proliant ML310e Gen8 setup with a RAID 5 array with 5 300Gb SAS Dual Port 10k drives. Two of the drives show imminent failure and I want to replace them. Would this work as hot-swappable drives or do I need to shutdown the server and rebuild the array? I'm just worried that if it forces me to reinitialize the array, it will wipe out everything out.

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Natty Greg

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Natty Greg

snap here is the link
http://www.qnap.com/useng/index.php?sn=3361

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David

No, do what I wrote earlier, a full backup FIRST. A rebuild is the most stressful thing you can do to a HDD other than a burn-in. You are in high risk of data loss with 2 drives showing IMMINENT failure.

Your #1 priority is a backup first, while all disks are online. If a drive dies during the rebuild, you have 100% data loss.

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Alan Dala

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Thank you all for your responses.

How long do I have to wait before replacing the second hard drive? I don't see any messages in the Event Viewer or Disk Management...

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Use the Array Configuration Utility to monitor the status, also once you remove one drive the "do not remove" lights should come on on the others as they should be in Gen8 caddies.

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