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January 22, 2025
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Need help Migrating

  • January 22, 2025
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I currently have my Lightroom folders on and OWC 4M drive. This is 4x 4TB NVME drives set up as two raid 1. In total I have 2x4tb drive space mirrored as back up to 2x4tb nvmes. I thought 8TB would last a long time but, of course it doesn't. I have purchased an OWC Thuderbolt 4 housing with 4 x18TB HD drives set up as at RAID 5 for a total of 54TB drive space with one disk redundancy.

 

My plan is to:

 

1. Transfer my Libraries from the NVME drives to the Raid 5 54TB drive.

2. Reinitialize the 4x4TB NVME drives as a raid 0, 16TB drive- Giving me more space.

3. Transfer the libraries back to the 16TB raid 0 NVME drive to work from and use the larger raid 5 HD drive as back up.

 

Succinctly, can anyone tell me how to do this effeciently and safely? 

 

DO I:

 

1. Drag the libraries within lightroom to the new drive.

2. veryify that LR can see them and they work.

3. Reinitilize the NVME as a raid 0, 16TB drive.

4. Enter lightroom and drag them back to that drive?

 

Thank you!

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dj_paige
Legend
January 22, 2025

Do not drag large amounts of photos within LrC. Use your operating system to do this, and re-connect in LrC.

 

Scroll down and read "Part 2 — Updating Folder Location" in this document: https://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

 

Known Participant
January 22, 2025

Thank you very much.