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replace tray caddy on PowerEdge
Hi, I have a Dell PowerEdge R630 with 6 disks (2 virtual disks with 3 disks each, both RAID5). Controller is PERC H730P Mini
One of tray caddy is broken, and I need to replace it.
I could put disk in "fail" state and replace tray caddy.
Since I can afford a downtime, I wondering if I can simply shutdown server, extract disk, replace tray, and power on again.
Will controller raid "notice" anything?
Thank you!
One of tray caddy is broken, and I need to replace it.
I could put disk in "fail" state and replace tray caddy.
Since I can afford a downtime, I wondering if I can simply shutdown server, extract disk, replace tray, and power on again.
Will controller raid "notice" anything?
Thank you!
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Hi, I wondering if the battery on controller could cause some issue.
Thank you :)
Thank you :)
no need to worry about it... thats safe...go ahead
The battery on the controller just keeps the onboard memory active, the hard drives are powered down when the server is off.
If cached data has not been written back to the drives, this occurs one they power up again.
If cached data has not been written back to the drives, this occurs one they power up again.
just simply shutdown the server and replace the caddy ..and plug it ..it's safe ...
all the best