Server Hard Drive Upgrade Question

Currently have a 2 terabyte hard drive in my server. It is a hosted solution (knownhost.com). I do have the entire box. 

Thinking of updating the hard drive to 4T, or maybe 6T. Hosting company says 2 ways to do this. 

1-Clone the 2T drive onto a 4T drive (which requires server downtime), then install/boot on new cloned 4T drive. 4-8 hours down.

or

2-Install a 4T drive, and via a 'mount point', name it sy-photos/2024. No down time.

Does Sytist allow for option #2 and function correctly? I thought, but wanted to confirm, Sytist always needs the original/installed mounted drive, and could only reference it (and/or files moved to Amazon AWS, which for me has gotten too spendy as an alternative). 

TIA!

I don't know. There will already be a sy-photos/2024 folder. 

But I don't know how that will work. 

Hi Tim,

I have asked for clarification on this. The statement from support was:

"Support recommends that instead of upgrading the primary drive which requires a lot of down time, that you keep it, and add a new 4TB HDD drive to your server. He says support can create a mount point for sy-photos/2024 on the new drive. Then of course you upgrade the backup drive."

I think it's where the support team copies/clones the current 2T primary drive's sy-photos/2024 onto the 4T drive, then renames/removes the directory from the 2T primary drive, but in the next instance/time frame after that sets up the new mount point of that directory to be sy-photos/2024 on the 4T (new) drive. A reboot or two may be required. This will be, from my understanding, where the 2T primary drive still exists for the OS/Server/Sytist software, but the 4T drive has the sy-photos/2024 as a symlink mount point (not sure what it's called in the unix/server world).

Any thoughts on this? I'm not opposed to trying....

But, I'm also equally okay with my site being down for awhile (for a true cloning process of the primary drive), if it's done across a time/weekend where I don't have an event scheduled.

Thanks!

I really don't know how to answer this because this is beyond my knowledge on how that works.