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Thank you for the quick feed back.
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I have a hard drive that just failed in my server and need to replace it. This server is running a PERC6/I RAID 6.<br />
I swapped it out with a spare drive however the spare drive was not 250GB but less. <br />
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Can you suggest a replacement drive for the Western Digital WD2500YS and also, does the size of the drive have to match? The server is running but looks to be somewhat degraded.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Brian
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I have a hard drive that just failed in my server and need to replace it. This server is running a PERC6/I RAID 6.
I swapped it out with a spare drive however the spare drive was not 250GB but less. 

Can you suggest a replacement drive for the Western Digital WD2500YS and also, does the size of the drive have to match? The server is running but looks to be somewhat degraded.

Thanks,

Brian

Hard Drive replacement

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