Hi [NAME]   If the drive status is already failed, there is no need to mark the drive as offline.   Offline- This means that the disk is in an offline state and is not available for any activity/ data transfers.   Missing- This state refers to that the disk was recently available on the system but can no longer be located or identified. The missing disk may be corrupted, powered down, or disconnected.   Spun down- In this state, the disk will go into standby mode after a certain period of inactivity. Due to this, the power usage will be reduced and the disk life will be extended, but there will be latency before the disk can be accessed again for critical activities.
I have a power edge T420 that has a RAID50 setup on it. One disk failed and I am going to replace it. I learned that RAID exists on Wednesday so before I go ahead I wanted to ask someone to double check if what I plan will work. Thanks! I've installed the command line tool and here are its outputs: My plan is to do as follows: 1. I will switch the disk off 2. I will swap the drive sitting in the tower 3. I will bring it back with That's it. So as you can see I have pretty much just collected a bunch of commands from the manual and I have lined them up in what I hope makes sense, but to be honest I have no idea what am I doing. So if someone can help me out with it that would be much appreciated!
Disk replacement RAID 5