Hot swapping server HDD's for SSD's.

[EssentialRug]

Just after a bit of advice...we are nearly at a point where we can think about decomissioning our on prem Windows Servers and are considering replacing the current HDD's in one of our Dell Poweredge T330 with SSD's. We'd primarily use this for firing up VM's, general testing and the like.

 

First question is, what SSD's are generally recommended for servers (even though the machine won't be 'serving' so to speak), and secondly can we hot swap the drives (currently configured as RAID 5e) and what would be the process to do so?

 

Or would it be worth waiting until we decomission and then rebuild from scratch?

 

Thanks!