thedigitaldog wrote There's some very good reasons to do so... I agree that there are some good reasons...for some images...but for 3TB worth of images...really? To me, that doesn't seem realistic. In this case, we are looking at 2 EHDs, not multiple EHDs. To me, carrying 2 EHDs to another computer isn't a deal breaker. If some images need to be moved to the new EHD, so be it, that can be done as needed. Moving 3TB to the new EHD makes the available space on that new EHD only 5TB, 62.5% of its full capacity (Looking at it another way, that's a 60% increase in the cost of new storage space, pay for 8TB, get 5). OK, so for a few months, or maybe a year, this might be a little inconvenient, but in a year or so, the old images on the old EHD become sooo last century, and life goes on with the present and the future. What happens when the new 8TB (5TB really) becomes full? Buy a 20TB (12TB really) and copy all images and continue? So, yes there are some good reasons, but I don't think copying all images to the new EHD is worth the problems that this OP (and others in the past in this forum) are going through. For me, the best choice is still to power through the transition...and move on.
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