I have a Windows Storage Server 2003 running on 3x 500GB SATA HDD in a RAID 5 array on a PERC 5/i card. The problem is we need more storage space, and therefore I was planning on buying 4x 1TB drives.

I'm about to replace a flaky 1200A ata raid card, but I'm wondering how painful it's going to be. The array is a 0+1, and I'm hoping I can just swap the old card for the new without having to ...