this is a quick question, as I haven't found an answer to this.  

 

is it possible to move all the data within Unraid from a 4TB hard drive to a 10TB hard drive.   

 

as I am planning on doing the following - replace 2 x 4TB hard drivers with a 10TB hard drive to free up space within my server and to give me 2TB extra storage

 

so my steps would be to:

 

connect the 10TB to the unraid and then somehow (move) all the data from the first 4TB to the 10TB

then move the data from the second 4TB to the 10TB. 

once done I would then remove the 2 X 4TB hard drivers from the raid.

You can use the Dynamix File Manager to achieve this move.

 

I assume that at the moment you do not have a parity disk?   Just checking as that would affect the advice you are be given.

thanks for the advice, I will look at the Dynamix File Manager.

 

regarding the point about a Parity Disk. I do have one, and I understand that I can remove a HD from the raid and then replace it with a new HD and it will rebuild, but I just had a big system failure resulting in me losing a HD, and the rebuild didn't restore all my data so I have go and do a data recovery on it.  so I am looking at over options.

 

16 minutes ago, chris_netsmart said:

thanks for the advice, I will look at the Dynamix File Manager.

 

regarding the point about a Parity Disk. I do have one, and I understand that I can remove a HD from the raid and then replace it with a new HD and it will rebuild, but I just had a big system failure resulting in me losing a HD, and the rebuild didn't restore all my data so I have go and do a data recovery on it.  so I am looking at over options.

 

If you do have a parity drive then the obvious answer is to use the standard process for replacing a drive to get one of the 4TB replaced by a 10Tb dtive.   Even if something goes wrong with the replacement as long as you keep the 4TB drive intact then you will have that to fall back on for getting your files.