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<blockquote data-quote="jman995x" data-source="post: 1840487" data-attributes="member: 58170">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 &quot;LaCie&quot; 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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jman995x, post: 1840487, member: 58170"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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