Is it good idea to move 500GB database to another drive?

Hello Experts,
I have Exchange server 2013 on Windows server 2008 R2 Standard. All the roles are installed on single server.
I have a single database in D drive and the size of database is around 500 GB, The drive is about to full.
I have another partition(E drive) with 1.8 TB storage and planning to move this database into this drive? is it good idea to move this size (500 GB) database to another drive?
Or
Should I create a new database in other drive, which has 1.8 TB storage and move mailboxes one by one.
Please let me know, what is the best practice for it.
Thanks in advance!!
Thanks, Manoj

Hi,
There is no downtime if you create new database on new drive and move mailbox to it. Moving mailbox doesn’t shrink the old database file, you need to delete the original database after you moving mailbox to new database.
Best regards,
Belinda Ma
TechNet Community Support

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