Raid 5 failing hard drive swap take offline ?

[round2it]

do i need to take a faulty drive offline before swapping out for a new hard drive in a raid 5 configuration

using dells open manager and it tells me one drive is about to go pop so do i take it offline trough open manager or do i just rip it out and put a new one in.

 

never had hot swap drives before i have always powered down the servers

 

production server and need to keep it online if possible

 

 

BTW these are hot swap drives

Edited November 22, 2013 by round2it

[newpersn]

Depends on your RAID controller.

 

Is it Hot Swap or Cold Swap?

[plexer]

If the drives and controller support hot swap ya rip that baby outta there and slam in another drive dude

 

Ben

[round2it]

yes its a dell r510 server with perc6i controller

 

brown trousers time backed up last night so it is time

to change pants

[twin--turbo]

Pull the drive, put it back in. See what happens.

 

Also buy another drive and add it as a HOT spare if you can.

 

Rob

[round2it]

i have a new drive to put in so wish me luck

[twin--turbo]

Done it many times with no issue. Long long ago on a Perc3 I had to reboot the server and run the rebuild via the controller but them days are gone.

 

As I said, if you have space buy a hot spare. it stays redundant untill a failure happens and then becomes part of the array. This is especialy useful if you have more than one logical drive in a box of disks.

 

Rob

[round2it]

Ok swapped the drive said it was rebuilding. But had not moved from 0% after an hour so i have left it over the weekend.

 

Hope its ok when i get back to work.