Subject - Help With External HD [replacing the 2 HDs question]

[ttechf]

Hi, I have a Lacie External Hard Drive. It's a "double decker". It has 2 1TB hard drives in it. So it's 2TB total. From the day I set it up in 2009, it's never read as 2 1TB drives, it's always read as one big 2TB drive even though there's 2 drives in it. So, my big question is, if I want to take these out and replace them with 2 3TB HDs to make 6GB total, am I going to run into a problem disconnecting these 2 hard drives from each other when there's over 1TB of data on the drive?

Like could that ruin the information on the drives? Or does it know when to split? Like I have 1.2TB full. Does it know to put 1TB on one drive and leave 200GB on the other when I take it all apart? None of my files would be corrupted?


This is a huge concern of mine. Hopefully someone knows and can answer.


Thank you.

 

[Dahak]

Two things

1) its a spanned partition, meaning it takes the two drives and makes one, so if you remove one drive you would most likely loose it all, so i would back it up some how before doing anything to it


2) you may want to double check to see if 3tb drives would be supported it in, giving that its was from 2009, there is a good chance it wont