- Dec 24, 2008
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Thanks for reading this (it's a long post).
Background:
I have two hardware controllers (3Ware 9650SE-8 and a 9650SE-4) with a total of twelve 1TB drives. I wanted to upgrade the 1TB drives in the eight-drive array to eight 3TB (as the 8-drive array was getting full having around 6TB of data/movies on it).
1) I setup the 9650SE-4 controller as "four single 1TB drives" (no RAID used) and copied over all the stuff on the eight drive array. When the 1st four drives were filled, I "removed them" and installed the 2nd group of four empty drives (BTW - I only needed to use two drives to finish copying everything).
2) Now I have all my data from the eight-drive array copied to 6 single 1TB drives.
3) I installed the new 3TB drives in the eight-drive array and created a new RAID6.
4) I copied the 1st four drives' data to the new array. All is good.
5) Problem: I tried to copy the 2nd set of data (from the two 1TB drives) to the new array but only the folders copied. The data in the folders did not copy (it's mostly MKV, M2TS, and VOB files and JPG files). I can see the data in Windows Explorer but if I try to move it, I get the Windows error message "Item Cannot be found. Try again". Etc.
I think the problem is that the 2nd group of drives didn't get indexed properly.
Any ideas?
Background:
I have two hardware controllers (3Ware 9650SE-8 and a 9650SE-4) with a total of twelve 1TB drives. I wanted to upgrade the 1TB drives in the eight-drive array to eight 3TB (as the 8-drive array was getting full having around 6TB of data/movies on it).
1) I setup the 9650SE-4 controller as "four single 1TB drives" (no RAID used) and copied over all the stuff on the eight drive array. When the 1st four drives were filled, I "removed them" and installed the 2nd group of four empty drives (BTW - I only needed to use two drives to finish copying everything).
2) Now I have all my data from the eight-drive array copied to 6 single 1TB drives.
3) I installed the new 3TB drives in the eight-drive array and created a new RAID6.
4) I copied the 1st four drives' data to the new array. All is good.
5) Problem: I tried to copy the 2nd set of data (from the two 1TB drives) to the new array but only the folders copied. The data in the folders did not copy (it's mostly MKV, M2TS, and VOB files and JPG files). I can see the data in Windows Explorer but if I try to move it, I get the Windows error message "Item Cannot be found. Try again". Etc.
I think the problem is that the 2nd group of drives didn't get indexed properly.
Any ideas?
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