Copy or Move folders and catalog in Lightroom 4

Hi, I am using Lightroom since 4 years. I have about 200,000 files (4.3TB) in 3 external hard drives and one catalog for all. Recently I had a problem with one ehd (I have 2 more copies luckily) and luckily it is still working. Due to this problem I have just purchased a NAS system (QNAP TS-669 Pro) with 6x3TB drives and set it up to RAID 6. Now the question: how should I proceed? Move or Copy all my Folders to new drives using Lightroom? Second question is about the Lightroom catalog lrdata and lrcat. I would also like to move them all to my new NAS system for safety, or should I leave them all in my users directory and make a backup copy to NAS? Thanks in advance

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