Depending on the capability of the RAID controller, I'd just substitute one drive at a time, letting the array rebuild in between.
After that, you should be able to expand the array. A quick call to Dell support will tell you if that's possible. Kurt On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jesse Rink <[email protected]> wrote: > Have a Dell T310 server with (4) 1TB sas drives in a RAID5 array, running > Windows 2008R2. Need to replace the drives with (4) 2TB sas drives in a > RAID5 array. Server only holds 4 physical HD bays so I can't just add an > extra array. Curious if anyone has any tricks to speeding up this migration > other than rebuilding the OS from scratch on the (4) new 2Tb sas drives and > reinstalling all the apps on the server, etc. > > > > JR
