Replacing a disk on a headless Ubuntu server

Recently I picked up a new 4 TB SSD on sale at the Amazon Prime day sale to replace an aging RAID5 array in my media server. Over the last couple days I made the exchange and thought I should save an outline of the steps for posterity.

Connect the new drive through your preferred method, I chose USB.

Log into the server with SSH.

Identify the new drive with:

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