setting up JBOD question

[cohen777]

I pulled the plug and purchased a new Mac Pro. Shipping time is about two weeks. I also purchased a Lacie 5Big to give a home to the five hard drives in my current 2010 Mac Pro.

So, my question is: when plug in the Lacie 5Big to my new Mac Pro, can I put the five (already formatted and holding lots of important data) drives into the 5Big and have the new Mac Pro recognize them as JBOD's. Or, do I need to back up the date on the five hard drives, then put in the into the 5Big, and then erase them and format them for JBOD?

And, if I need to format them in JBOD, how do I do that?

 

[matty1551]

You mean pulled the trigger?

 

[cohen777]

Yes, I am bad with idioms.

 

[flowrider]

Here:

http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/ss/raidjbod.htm

and

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1700866/

Lou

 

[Philip D]

You mean pulled the trigger?

If the bank account used to purchase the nMP was likened to a bath I would say pulling the plug is pretty accurate.