Should I create a new catalogue ?

Hi there,
I saw some youtube seminar from some top guru in Lightroom. I remember his advise was not to create a multiple catalogue and always stick to one catalogue.
I intend to follow his advice but I am now face with this problem below:
My 20TB Drobo 5D external harddisk which I usually uesed for Video editing will be getting full soon. I realise that it's getting filled up so fast because for the last many months, I have been putting timelapse raw photos into the Drobo 5D. All these timelapse raw fotos are catalogued in Lightroom
So, now I intend to moved all these raw timelpase photos into another harddisk so as to free the space in the Drobo 5D. I believe once I moved the raw timelapse fotos from 5D to a new harddisk, will the catalogue be all messed up ?
So what shall I do now ?
Thank you and appreciate the advice of experts here.
Thanks again

dj_paige wrote:
Let me give you the opposite advice. Keep everything in one catalog. There are rarely benefits to multiple catalogs. If you want all photos, time-lapse photos and videos of a particular subject, and they're spread out across two catalogs, you can't retrieve them easily using multiple catalogs. In one catalog, this is a simple search.
ONE CATALOG ONLY.
You can move photos and videos to another hard drive without messing up the catalog by following these instructions: Adobe Lightroom - Find moved or missing files and folders
Thanks dj_paige for your advice which is the same as the guru i saw in the youtube.
I read the link you gave me twice. The author is suggesting we copy the files in a new disk. That means now we have two identical folders at two different disks. This is a good precaution against corrupt files. But surely, after when you load Lightroom, it will be able to locate the files ... which is why I don't understand the section about ? folders and ! files and then do a locate ... Surely the ? and I would not come out since we are copying he same files over to another disk. (remember the author said we delete only when we are satisfied the files in the new disk are not corrupted ?)
Sorry, I am a bit confused about the link. Thanks

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