The simple answer is depends.
You will need to locate a drive is similar to the failed one. It must be at least the same size or larger.
Once you have installed it, boot up the machine and look for the post screen for the raid controller. There should be a button combination like Control-Z to get into the raid management screen.
Once in, your new drive should appear in the disk menu. It probably will show it as a failed drive. Select initialize and then rebuild. If all goes well, your new drive should rebuild in a few hours.
Most of the time you can reboot your machine and boot into the OS. The raid will rebuild while running. Keep in mind that there will be a lack of performance at this time. Avoid running any disk intensive apps.
raid5
PS3's have been designed to allow the harddrive to be replaced with standard notebook size harddrives. You can increase the size of the current harddrive or you can replace the PS3 with a new model with a larger harddrive.
Both the RAID levels perform block level striping. How ever the difference is in parity bottleneck. Hence raid5 preferred over raid4.
Yes: Harddrive crashed..had to replace it.
What should happen is that you review and remove the least desirable items stored on the PlayStation harddrive. You can also replace the harddrive with a larger harddrive. The system does have some control but mostly you will be unable to add anything to your harddrive. If you also have an online connection games needing updates will no longer be playable.
Immediately replace it with a hard drive that does not randomly lock up.
Yes you can. Sony even wants you to take out the harddrive and replace it with a bigger one. It won't void your warranty. This is because on the playstation 3 website they mentioned that it is possible to change the harddrive and replace it with another one and that it won't void your warranty. Hope I could help!
RAID5 level in computer networking means to combine disk drive components. RAID, or Redundant Array of Individual Disks, have many different levels like RAID1, RAID2, and so on.
The hard disc drive of a PS3 is designed to be replaced with a standard laptop harddrive. see related link. You can not just remove the harddrive and must replace and reload the information for the PS3 to still work
The harddrive is the size of a standard notebook harddrive not a PC size harddrive. So you can not fit it in the smaller spot required for the notebook size harddrive
You do not download the disc to harddrive you must purchase the game at the PlayStation store as a download to download the game to harddrive
depends on several factors- 1) if there is any data on that harddrive you need, TAKE OUT THE HARDDRIVE. 2) if the harddrive is less than 120 GB, and the above is not true, GET RID OF IT. 3) if the harddrive is working, and number 2 is NOT true, KEEP IT. A working harddrive of decent size is always helpful to have around.