Night Prowler Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 (edited) I have two 4TB drives setup in Raid1 using the Windows Disk Management to create the mirrored volume. 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... Edited April 18, 2018 by Night Prowler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 18, 2018 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2018 Well, I believe you just have to backup everything and transfer... In, creating a new RAID array... xendrome 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted April 18, 2018 Global Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2018 set up the 6TB volume first, copy the data, then unplug the 4TB volume? DConnell 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 18, 2018 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2018 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Prowler Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 I 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted April 18, 2018 Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2018 Just now, Night Prowler said: I 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted April 18, 2018 Global Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2018 Just now, Night Prowler said: I 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Prowler Posted April 18, 2018 Author Share Posted April 18, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted April 18, 2018 Global Moderator Share Posted April 18, 2018 but w/o connecting the new drives, how are you going to get the data to them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted April 18, 2018 Share Posted April 18, 2018 he's going to need a external or single drive to hookup to as a go between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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