Best way to transfer data to new hard drive - Creating Volumes https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/best-way-to-transfer-data-to-new-hard-drive/ SoftRAID Discussion Board en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:39:17 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Best way to transfer data to new hard drive https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/best-way-to-transfer-data-to-new-hard-drive/#post-20390 Tue, 17 Oct 2023 02:12:42 +0000 Yes. You can also, use "split mirror", insert the new larger disk, initialiaze it, and "add secondary disk", and rebuild. When done, repeat with the remaining disk. (you will also need to "set primary disk" to the larger disk.

When both are rebuilt, then "resize" and make the volume the full capacity.

 

Or you can do it your way and "Convert" the volume to a Mirror.

]]> Creating Volumes SoftRAID Support https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/best-way-to-transfer-data-to-new-hard-drive/#post-20390 Best way to transfer data to new hard drive https://forums.softraid.com/creating-volumes/best-way-to-transfer-data-to-new-hard-drive/#post-20388 Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:22:47 +0000 Hello, I have a OWC Thunderbay 4 bay enclosure that has four hard drives which are setup as two mirrored pairs wtih SoftRaid.  I am planning on upgrading a two of the hard drives to new ones with a larger capacity.  There isn't enough free space to copy the data off the hard drives.  Just wondering, could I remove one old hard drive from the enclosure, replace it with a new hard drive, then copy the data to the new hard drive, then remove the remaining old hard drive, then put in the second new hard drive, then link the two as a mirrored RAID?     I wasn't sure if Softraid supports taking an existing hard drive with data, and adding a mirror to it while preserving the data.

Thanks so much

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