Spanned volumes

[Moredhel]

Not sure if this should go here or in Hard Drives, but here goes.

I'm after some reassurance really. My drives are configured as below. Drive H is a disk in my DAS and drive I is the other 3 disks in my DAS in a windows spanned volume. What I want to know is, if I copy everything from drive H into drive I, will I be able to then import the disk that is currently drive H into the span to bring the total up to 8TB rather than 6TB?

If that's possible, all's fine and dandy, although if anyone knows a way of importing the disk into the span without losing any data and without having to move nearly 2TB of stuff around, that'd be even more awesome.

Cheers

 

[PistolPete]

Yes, this should work and I was under the impression that extending the volume was non-destructive, which is kinda the point. You run low on space, add a disk and extend.

 

[Moredhel]

In the end I built a VM and added a load of hard drives and tested. I can't just combine the disks into one span, but I can copy everything off of the 2TB drive into the bigger span and then add the 2TB drive into the span.

ETA on the move is still ~5 hours.