Upgrading disks within an HP MSA500 array

Hi

I'm running an HP MSA500 disk array which contains 10 x 72Gb Ultra320
SCSI disks. They are used by Exchange 2003 within a 2 node cluster
configuration running Windows 2003. They are configured as RAID 1.

I wish to upgrade these disks to 300Gb and I will be keeping the RAID
1 configuration.

Does anyone know if it will be possible to swap one disk at a time and
let the RAID rebuild itself?
I would do this by shutting down one node and rebooting the other into
the "F8 Raid configuration Utility".
Once all disks have been swapped can you then expand the logical drive
to use the additional space?
As it's a MS Cluster the disks are configured as BASIC so I know it's
not possible within Windows to expand the logical drive.
Is there a way of performing this logical drive expansion using the HP
ACU so that the additional 228GB on each drive is utilised?

Many thanks

.

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