Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a > 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running fine, I'm > becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this storage, so I'm > planning to upgrade it to a 500GB or maybe 1TB SSD from Crucial. > > My plan would be to install the SSD in the cage, and dd the contents of the > array onto the SSD. I would then change the BIOS to boot from the SSD, > making the RAID array redundant. > > Can someone please tell me whether this plan is feasible, and what pitfalls > I might encounter? >
I would recommend: - install SSD - partition SSD, aligning partitions with new block sizes - create filesystems in SSD partitions - copy over filesystems with rsync - make changes to new /etc/fstab - make changes to bootloader to set new root filesystem - shut down machine - disconnect old disks - start machine, make BIOS changes if necessary - boot - test for functionality file-level copying is better than block-level copying when going between drives of different technologies. -dsr-