Hello,
I have an older LaCie, 2Big, 6TB (2x3TB), Raid (capable) External Hard Drive.
It is currently set to Raid 0, so it's just essentially 2 HDDS in an external casing.
I've seen YouTube videos where people just switch out the drives for newer, higher capacity drives (but only saw it then connected to a PC, not a Mac).
Is it as easy as that...just buy 2 higher capacity, same manufacturer drives, swap them in, and boot up the External Drive/Enclosure and it'll work....my iMac will see the "LaCie" as a (hopefully, now) 10 TB external drive?
If not, why not, and what else would be involved to accomplish this?
Is there a max (per bay) capacity I'd be limited to, and if so, how would I find out what that is?
Also, somebody in one of the videos said that I had to buy the same manufacturer and model or else the drives wouldn't be recognized upon mounting..is that true?
Thanks,
J.
I have an older LaCie, 2Big, 6TB (2x3TB), Raid (capable) External Hard Drive.
It is currently set to Raid 0, so it's just essentially 2 HDDS in an external casing.
I've seen YouTube videos where people just switch out the drives for newer, higher capacity drives (but only saw it then connected to a PC, not a Mac).
Is it as easy as that...just buy 2 higher capacity, same manufacturer drives, swap them in, and boot up the External Drive/Enclosure and it'll work....my iMac will see the "LaCie" as a (hopefully, now) 10 TB external drive?
If not, why not, and what else would be involved to accomplish this?
Is there a max (per bay) capacity I'd be limited to, and if so, how would I find out what that is?
Also, somebody in one of the videos said that I had to buy the same manufacturer and model or else the drives wouldn't be recognized upon mounting..is that true?
Thanks,
J.
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