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I have a HP ProLiant server that is showing a drive status in the RAID manage Utility of “300 GB 2-Port SAS Drive at Port 1I : Box 1 : Bay 4 is predicted to fail soon”. In a case like this would the physical drive actually show an indication light by it just be a warning? Also by this being the case that it is a Warning should this drive just be swapped out? <br />
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Thank you,
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I have a HP ProLiant server that is showing a drive status in the RAID manage Utility of “300 GB 2-Port SAS Drive at Port 1I : Box 1 : Bay 4 is predicted to fail soon”. In a case like this would the physical drive actually show an indication light by it just be a warning? Also by this being the case that it is a Warning should this drive just be swapped out? 

Thank you,

Hard Drive Predictive Failure

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.