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June 10th, 2025 21:38

Upgrading drives in a PERC H730P Adapter RAID 10 array

I have a PowerEdge T440.  It has the PERC H730P Adapter with four 2TB HDDs in a RAID 10 array.  I plan to replace (hot-swap) the HDDs with new 2TB SSDs.  I plan to replace the drives one at a time, allowing time for the array to rebuild after each replacement.  I have the latest version of Dell OpenManage Server Administrator installed and working. Questions:

  • Can I expect the RAID array to automatically rebuild after replacing each disk?
  • If not, can I use OpenManage to start and monitor the array rebuild?  How?

As an alternative, what if I add the SSDs as hot spares, then promote the spares to front-line members of the array, retiring the HDDs?  

  • Will the added SSDs automatically become hot spares for the array?
  • If not, can I use OpenManage to add them to the array as hot spares?  How?

TIA!

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