10-13-2023, 03:27 PM
Certainly, Tim. When building your NAS using Unraid and considering you have a 16TB and a 12TB drive with data on them, you'll need to prepare for some data migration. The drives with existing data will need to be formatted to work with Unraid, so you'll require additional drives for data migration. Your idea of getting two 16TB drives is a good one. You can start by copying the data from your 12TB drive to one of the new 16TB drives via USB, then add this 16TB drive to your Unraid NAS. Afterward, you can repeat the process for the 16TB drive with data. Unraid allows you to add drives incrementally, which makes it a flexible solution for your needs. This way, you can safely migrate your data and expand your storage capacity as needed.