Failed disk replacement for non identical on ICH7r in RAID5

[idata]

Hello,

oen of my 3 disks in RAID-5 filed. Now I need to replace that disk, but its legacy one Seagate 7200.9. So it cant be replaced for identical disk. Can I add to RAID-5 some other disk without fear of failure whole array?

Thanks for replies,

Vebloud

[idata]

Its likely the disk didn't fail if your using Matrix Storage Manager 8.9

/thread/5036?start=0&tstart=0 http://communities.intel.com/thread/5036?start=0&tstart=0

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-030818.htm http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-030818.htm

If so downgrade to 8.8 and mark the drive as normal.

Its not ideal but replacing a drive that's not the same is ok if you can match the following closely:

Make - same

Size – same or bigger

NCQ – same

Cache – same or bigger

RPM - same

Model - any

[idata]

I try disk in another computer and its failed for sure. Thanks for reply. I will buy new disk as soon as possible.