Hi StableBit community; been using DrivePool for many years and love the reassurance it brings in data redundancy.
I've read the preferred way of migrating a pool with low free space to larger capacity drives (i.e., 2x 8TB -> 2x 12TB, for example) is to add the higher capacity drive to the pool and then remove one of the existing drives. The situation I'm in is that I've got 4 SATA ports taken up by two 2-drive pools.
Could I temporarily disconnect one of the drives on one of the pools, and use the freed up SATA port to attach the higher capacity drive and migrate the data as described above?
I also have a two-port PCI SATA card that I may be able to find (and might be working) - would that be a more preferred path to add a SATA port?
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Christian
Hi StableBit community; been using DrivePool for many years and love the reassurance it brings in data redundancy.
I've read the preferred way of migrating a pool with low free space to larger capacity drives (i.e., 2x 8TB -> 2x 12TB, for example) is to add the higher capacity drive to the pool and then remove one of the existing drives. The situation I'm in is that I've got 4 SATA ports taken up by two 2-drive pools.
Could I temporarily disconnect one of the drives on one of the pools, and use the freed up SATA port to attach the higher capacity drive and migrate the data as described above?
I also have a two-port PCI SATA card that I may be able to find (and might be working) - would that be a more preferred path to add a SATA port?
Thanks in advance.
--- Chris
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