Hi, first post, hope this is the right forum.
So I bought a couple of HGST s840 drives mentioned in this thread. The drives need a firmware update and I managed to obtain the upgrade files from the HGST website.
I stupidly installed the OS on these drives when I got them, so updating the firmware is a little trickier as the drives have to be completely wiped. I have them in a Dell R710 Perc 6/i controller (on the latest firmware) in a RAID 1. I was hoping I could remove each drive from the array one at a time, wipe it, then apply the latest firmware, all without taking the server down. I haven't messed around with this RAID controller a whole lot, but it looks like I can set a disk as offline in OpenManage, create a new RAID 0 array, format, apply firmware, set to offline again, then recombine with the OS array, rinse and repeat?
Anyway, was hoping someone on here has done this before; I searched high and low on this forum and online and didn't find anything resembling my issue. Just for context, this is a home server that gets a bare-metal backup nightly, so a nuke and reinstall is an option. I'd just rather avoid that as I run several server 2016 VMs (around 1 TB) and and complete reinstall would likely take all day. Appreciate any help!
So I bought a couple of HGST s840 drives mentioned in this thread. The drives need a firmware update and I managed to obtain the upgrade files from the HGST website.
I stupidly installed the OS on these drives when I got them, so updating the firmware is a little trickier as the drives have to be completely wiped. I have them in a Dell R710 Perc 6/i controller (on the latest firmware) in a RAID 1. I was hoping I could remove each drive from the array one at a time, wipe it, then apply the latest firmware, all without taking the server down. I haven't messed around with this RAID controller a whole lot, but it looks like I can set a disk as offline in OpenManage, create a new RAID 0 array, format, apply firmware, set to offline again, then recombine with the OS array, rinse and repeat?
Anyway, was hoping someone on here has done this before; I searched high and low on this forum and online and didn't find anything resembling my issue. Just for context, this is a home server that gets a bare-metal backup nightly, so a nuke and reinstall is an option. I'd just rather avoid that as I run several server 2016 VMs (around 1 TB) and and complete reinstall would likely take all day. Appreciate any help!
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