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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/New_Yogurt_521 on 2023-08-30 21:30:46+00:00.

So, a while ago I bought two drives, wanting to use them as one big drive I created a linear array. Months later, I’m here realizing that this might have been stupid.

Plan is to get two more of those same size drives, and also expand more in the future whenever the wallet allows, so I’d like to go with raid6 or raid10 (Please give some opinions). I tried to find something on the web about it but I either suck at the google game, or there is nothing soo…

How do I get rid of my linear soft raid (mdadm) without data loss? The raid is fine right now, all drives are healthy and I plan to use them once I reconfigure it with more drives as well, the current data does not yet exceed the first disk, and I’m just planning ahead.

Thanks in advance <3