WD My Cloud EX4100 change (upgrade) disks

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX4
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Hi there!
I have an EX4100 with 2x4TB drives working correctly.

What I want is to remove those drives and install 2x6TB that I already bought (6TB WD60EFPX-68C5ZN0).

I understand that it is a simple process, but I want to confirm it with you first.

the nas has 2 empty hard drive bays.

the process would be:
1- connect the 2 6TB drives in each free bay

2- do raid 1 between them

3- move the information manually from raid 1 of the 4TB disks to the raid 1 of the 6TB disks

4- disconnect 4TB disks

is this correct? If so, what is the best way to move the info in step 3?

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Hi @YuriEgorov3,

Have you opened a Support Case? If not opened, for more information, please contact the WD Technical Support team for the best assistance and troubleshooting:

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Will do, thanks Keerti!

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Yes, the simple drag and drop will work using a PC.

You will REALLY want to have the PC hardwired to the network.

Best option is to actually use WINSCP and a SSH connection - with a nohub option. This cryptic mumbo jumbo boils down to issuing commands using a program called WINSCP. This will make the NAS copy the files over WITHOUT further involvement from the PC.