I bought an old HP Proliant DL something G5... I installed a cache battery because the HP RAID software told me I could not have RAID 5 without one. I bought refurbished disks really cheap online, one 70GB disk, and three 300GB disks.
After I installed the cache battery, one of the disks decided to amber light on me. I was able to cut a deal with the Vendor and they sent me another disk.
My questions are: Do I replace the faulty disk prior to setting up the RAID? I worry replacing the disk without the RAID setup will cause issues. But they weren't previously used so I'm not worried about data. I don't want another disk to go bad for some reason. The OS is on the 70GB disk. So it should be fine right? I worry I did something wrong during the cache battery install to cause one of the disks to go bad but then again that's just my luck. I want to do this the right way. How do I proceed?
Edit: Oh... duh. RAID 5 requires at least 3 disks. So I need that third disk up and running. Can the disk be ejected without already being setup as a RAID? And they're hot swap right? So I don't need to power off?
After I installed the cache battery, one of the disks decided to amber light on me. I was able to cut a deal with the Vendor and they sent me another disk.
My questions are: Do I replace the faulty disk prior to setting up the RAID? I worry replacing the disk without the RAID setup will cause issues. But they weren't previously used so I'm not worried about data. I don't want another disk to go bad for some reason. The OS is on the 70GB disk. So it should be fine right? I worry I did something wrong during the cache battery install to cause one of the disks to go bad but then again that's just my luck. I want to do this the right way. How do I proceed?
Edit: Oh... duh. RAID 5 requires at least 3 disks. So I need that third disk up and running. Can the disk be ejected without already being setup as a RAID? And they're hot swap right? So I don't need to power off?