[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Proliant Microserver N54L Upgrade

[Volker A. Brandt]

> I assume you have the 4 disks in some sort of RAID configuration. If
> you want to sweat it, you can pull one drive out and have it
> re-silver the replacement drive, repeat for the second drive, etc.
> If you do this I would run a scrub before pulling each drive, just
> in case.  If you have some particularly important stuff I would copy
> it somewhere.

+1

> One other silly thing you might do is to get an external USB
> enclosure and use that.  You then mirror one of the drives and then
> shut down and swap them.  If it doesn't work then swap them back.  I
> haven't tried this so YMMV.

The N54L has an eSATA connector so any external drive with eSATA
works fine.  We use it all the time.


Regards -- Volker
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