I have a server with a PERC6i controller. There are 8 bays in the server. Five of these bays have 450GB drives and 1 large RAID-5 virtual disk has been created. The 450GB drives currently installed are no longer available. If I were to purchase a 600GB, can I simply put it in one of the empty bays and expand the virtual disk? Or, do I have to backup, add the drive, recreate the array and restore? Also, if I can expand, what will be my gain - 450GB?
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