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April 29th, 2025 19:21
Hot swap question
I have a Dell T430 server with a PERCH 4730 Adapter.
One of the hard drives in a RAID5 Array is in a failed state.
How do I confirm all my hardware and drives are in a hot swappable configuration?
If they are all hot swappable, do I just simply remove the failed drive and put the new one in and the rebuild process will occur automatically?
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DELL-Young E
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April 30th, 2025 01:42
Hello, thanks for choosing Dell and welcome to our community.
https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/poweredge-t430_owners-manual_en-us.pdf
Can you see on page 10- the image of front panel-
"Front panel features of 16 x 2.5-inch hot swappable hard drive chassis"
If yours looks like this it is hot swappable.
You can start rebuilding once you put in a new disk.
Let us know if you have any further questions. And to help you further, please send us your service tag through DM. https://www.dell.com/community/en/direct-messaging
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DELL-Chris H
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April 30th, 2025 16:22
The only reason you would need to force a drive offline, before replacing, is if the drive is in a Predictive Failure status. The reason being is that the predicted fail is an indication of bad blocks exceeding the threshold and not forcing it offline first could copy those bad blocks over. So in your scenario, being failed and not predicted failure, you should be able to simply remove the drive and replace.
Let me know if this helps.
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April 30th, 2025 16:13
Thanks there are 8 3.5 drive bay at the front with a 2.5 to 3.5 carrier adapter since I’m using 2.5 disks. So if the disk is in a failed state there is no need to place it in offline status? Just pull out and put the new one in and rebuild should happen?