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Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

From	Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD
Date	2020-03-02 19:20 +0100
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Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> writes:

> 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've found the best way to migrate to new disks, especially if I've
already got a RAID array, is to put the new disk in, add it to the
array, wait for the array to synchronize, remove the old disks from
array.  Now install grub on the new disk.  If the new disk is larger
than the old ones were, now resize the filesystem to match.

This has worked well enough for me that I've got several one-disk RAID 1
arrays in anticipation of eventual upgrades.

Thread

Advice on upgrading to SSD Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2020-03-02 12:30 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-02 14:00 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Tony van der Hoff <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2020-03-04 15:50 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-03-04 16:10 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-04 17:10 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2020-03-04 19:00 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-04 18:50 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-03-04 19:00 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-04 20:30 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD "007@caiway.net" <007@caiway.net> - 2020-03-05 06:50 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-03-05 08:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-03-05 18:20 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-03-05 18:30 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Klaus Singvogel <klaus@singvogel.net> - 2020-03-05 19:00 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 00:50 +0100
          Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 01:00 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 04:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 04:40 +0100
            Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-03-05 09:30 +0100
              Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-05 16:20 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-05 20:00 +0100
                Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-03-06 00:00 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-03-05 00:50 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-03-05 03:40 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-03-02 16:40 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD basti <basti@unix-solution.de> - 2020-03-02 17:30 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 20:00 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-03-03 09:30 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-03-02 19:20 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-03-02 20:40 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-03-02 20:20 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> - 2020-03-02 20:30 +0100
      Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-03-02 20:30 +0100
        Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-03-02 22:10 +0100
  Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-03-03 01:50 +0100
    Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD Geoff <unit735@bigpond.com> - 2020-03-03 10:20 +0100

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