Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs
Mick Ab (12023-07-11):
> I am thinking of changing my storage from two 1TB hard drives in a software
> RAID 1 configuration to two M.2 Nvme 1 TB SSDs. The two SSDs would be put
> into a software RAID 1 configuration. Currently each hard drive contains
> both the operating system and user data.
>
> What steps would you recommend to achieve the above result and would those
> steps be the quickest way ?
Plug the new drives, add them to the RAID. While you are waiting for the
synchronization, install the bootloader on the new drives, preferably
both. Once the RAID is synced, remove the old drives from it. Shutdown
and finish the job.
> One of the M.2 slots can operate at PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 3.0, while the other
> slot can only operate at PCIe 3.0. If they are to be in a RAID 1 array, I
> guess that both slots should be operated at PCIe 3.0 speed.
Let the kernel decide.
Regards,
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Nicolas George
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