While it may depend on the controller, most of them will allow you to install a larger hard drive in place of the failed drive. It cannot be smaller.
If you eventually replace all of the hard drive in the array with larger drives, some controllers will allow you to expand the array on the fly without rebuilding and reloading your data. I know my Thecus N5200 Nas will allow me to do this.
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