Migraiting from Raid1 4TB to Raid1 6TB


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I have two 4TB drives setup in Raid1 using the Windows Disk Management to create the mirrored volume.

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I need to increase the size and I have 2 6TB drives. How do I go about swapping drives without losing the data?

 

I'm guessing I need to:

 

1- Right-click one of the disks in the Disk Management tool and remove it from the mirror.

2- Physically replace the disk.

3- Use the Disk Management tool, Initialize the new disk and convert it to a Dynamic Disk.

4- Add the new disk to the mirror.

 

Once the mirroring Process is completed I would do the same thing to the other disk?

 

How would I add the other 2TB to the mirrored volume?

 

Thanks...

 

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Well, I believe you just have to backup everything and transfer...

 

In, creating a new RAID array...

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4 minutes ago, Jason S. said:

set up the 6TB volume first, copy the data, then unplug the 4TB volume?

I may be wrong, but I don't think he can do that. But I hate RAID...

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3 minutes ago, Jason S. said:

set up the 6TB volume first, copy the data, then unplug the 4TB volume?

There is only three SATA connections in my home server. One is for the SSD for the operating system and the other two are connected to the two 4TB drives. 

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Just now, Night Prowler said:

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There is only three SATA connections in my home server. One is for the SSD for the operating system and the other two are connected to the two 4TB drives. 

Get a PCI-E RAID card then...

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Just now, Night Prowler said:

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There is only three SATA connections in my home server. One is for the SSD for the operating system and the other two are connected to the two 4TB drives. 

ah, that makes more sense now. i figured you had a motherboard w/ like 12 SATA ports.

 

you'll need to buy an ext drive, migrated the data, then set up the new volume

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19 minutes ago, Jason S. said:

ah, that makes more sense now. i figured you had a motherboard w/ like 12 SATA ports.

 

you'll need to buy an ext drive, migrated the data, then set up the new volume

I have a 4TB 2.5 that I can do that with, but was looking at something within the existing Raid.

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