I recently built a Win 7 Pro machine to use for storing videos and photos, etc.
Setup is: SSD for OS, and 5 2Tb HDDs. The HDDs are formatted as a single Spanned volume" with a little over 9 Tb capacity
Looking over the volume of data from my dead HP Media Smart home server, if looks as if the 9 Tb I have now won't be enough capacity.
Question:
If I add external drives to the existing spanned volume (as I move data off of then and connect them as external drives) will I loose the data already on the spanned volume?
(in which case I'm hosed and will have to consider a different OS.
If it's the case that I won't be able to add new drives to the spanned volume without data loss - any suggestions? Is there an app available to expand my spanned volume into/onto additional drives without data loss? Or is a simpler OS like Amahi that might accomplish this?
Thanks for any help you can give!