Best practice for expanding storage?

[rDin (Mark Harding)]

My 4TB USB drive is full, so I want to expand the capacity by adding/swapping in a larger drive.

What is the correct way to do this?

Currently I have the new drive plugged in an ROON reports it and I can add it as a folder. ROON then seems to combine the drives for reporting as space has jumped to more than double, however I still cannot add files to the storage as it’s “full”.

Can I add the new drive and combine (like a JBOD) in ROON? If so, how?

Or do I need to completely remove the original full drive and copy the contents to the larger drive then plug in the larger drive and start over? What will happen to all my tagging etc for the original files?

Thanks,

Mark

[Mike_O_Neill]

BACKUP FIRST …

Read this , and other like articles in the Knowledge base

Changing to a different external hard drive

Roon Core Machine Mac Mini M1 Networking Gear & Setup Details Connected Audio Devices Number of Tracks in Library 15,000 Description of Issue I wanted to move my library to another external drive. I made an exact copy of the entire library and disabled the current library and enabled the new drive… Roon discovered the same number of albums in the new location but it seems it lost my hours and hours of album editing. Many albums aren’t “identified” as they had been when I one…

If you copy your full one to an empty bigger one and simply swap Roon should self correct

If it doesn’t then set the new one as your storage and then restore a recent BU

[rDin (Mark Harding)]

I ended up copying all the music files to the new drive (using the same sync software I used on my NAS to populate the original drive), then disabled the original, enabled the new drive and ROON “imported” all the “new” files, linking them to the previous versions. Everything is working as expected. All tagging and metadata changes present and correct. Simple, but definitely felt unsure about the process, hence the original question.