I have 2 ssd in my k30. Main drive is a 4tb and second drive is a 2tb. When I installed the 2tb it became part of the overall storage. I am considering changing it to a 4tb as well. The problem I anticipate is that if I remove it I will not be able to read it so that I can transfer it’s content to the new 4tb drive. Is there a walk through for this? I have several computers/operating systems and a usb to sata cable available.
Copy all content to an appropriately sized external USB drive. Remove the 2TB drive, replace it with the 4TB, copy content back.
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Makes sense. Thank you.
Watch the Storage Guide from 5:46.
According to the User Guide, one cannot simply remove a SSD and add another SSD. All SSD must be deleted from storage, then re-added.
So, yes, connect a USB drive (or however many USB drives you require) to the K30. Copy over your music files. Then, delete the SSD storage. Add back your 4tb SSD storage disk and the new 4tb SSD storage disk. Copy over your music files from the USB drive(s).
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Thanks everyone. It appears there is no benefit to upgrading before I approach using the full 6tb. Maybe media will be cheaper then as well.
I plan to replace my SSD. Do I have to delete all stored music on that SSD and than remove it before I insert the new SSD and upload the music files? What happens if you just remove the old SSD and insert the new SSD and upload music?
Both drives are combined to create a single volume. Removing a single drive from the pair will leave the volume in an unusable state. So you will need to restore all your music after doing that.
Kenny
I want to confirm you are saying I need to delete all the music on the existing drive before I can remove it and insert the new SSD and upload the same music files on that drive.
Thanks,
Mark
If you replace one SSD with another, you don’t have to do anything to the SSD you are pulling out.
All your music will need to be re-copied to the new SSD.
If you have one SSD installed and wish to add another, such as in a K50, you don’t need to do anything to the existing SSD, just go to Manage Discs to add the new drive to the pool.
If you have a number of SSD installed and wish to remove one, or replace it with another, this will break the storage pool, and all music will need to be re-copied.
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This is rather awkward, and i find backing up from Oladra is more awkward again. It would be great if we had the option to use multiple discs as we want to, so that they could be kept separate from each other where a second disc could automatically take a mirror copy of the first ala RAID array, or each disk could be separate to each other to allow use to copy files from one to another manually