Adding & Moving additional drives

[totallytech]

Hey,
My PC currently has several hard drives installed
Disk 0: 240SSD - Boot Drive, (C:)
Disk 1: 4TB - (No Drive Letter) - (Disk 1)  **Should be C:\Drives\tv1**
Disk 2: 4TB - (No Drive Letter) - (Disk 2) **Should be C:\Drives\tv2**
Disk 3:  2TB - (No Drive Letter) - (C:\Drives\films1)
Disk 4:  2TB - (No Drive Letter) - (C:\Drives\films2)
Disk 5: 750GB, Partitioned as D, Y & C:\Drives\films3 **Should be C:\Drives\tv3**
Disk 6: Virtual F Drive (DrivePool Disk 3 & Disk 4)
Disk 7: Virtual T Drive (DrivePool Disk 1 & Disk 2 & Partition on Disk 5 & Disk 8)
Disk 8: 500GB - No Drive Letter - (C:\Drives\tv2) **Should be C:\Drives\tv4**

I've currently got 2 drivepools active - F (4TB) and T, (8.7TB)

I'm looking at adding 2 new 4TB drives and moving a 2TB, so I would end up with:

F: (3 x 4TB)
T: (1 x 4TB & 1 x 2TB)
D: & Y sharing (1 x 2TB)

So, I want to remove Disk5 and Disk8 - adding the 2 x 4TB drives. Can I phyiscally remove the drives and swap them over without changing DrivePool initially or do I need to remove from pool and then add to pool. The only reason I ask is that I don't have any Sata connections left on my PC, So I would have to connect them as USB drives and then add them to the pool etc - then physically move them from USB to sata connection etc...

Whats the best way to do this?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

If everything is duplicated, then you should be able to do this, but one disk at a time.  Eg, remove one disk, remove the "missing" disk from the pool, add the new disk, and let it reduplicate.  

Once that's done, then repeat the process.

 

If you're not duplicating everything, then you'll want to use the "Remove" option in the UI, and then remove the disk once it's empty.