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nas102
Aspirant
Jan 12, 2015

JBOD disk upgrade

hi, I would like to upgrade existing 1TB drive to 2TB drive. This drive is secondary drive on RN102 configured to JBOD. To save time, it is possible to do the following to transfer all data in ...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 29, 2015
AndreasKa wrote:
If the cloning software you have does block level cloning and partition expansion then it might work but i'm not sure which software will support this type of partition.

Make sure you have a backup and then try it and see if the software even recognises the partition as something it can work with.
Good advice.

But I'm not seeing any real time savings. Making a backup, installing the new drive, and restoring the backup will probably be as fast (or faster) than backing up, cloning/expanding - and won't require the experimentation.

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