The safest way is to make a backup and restore it to the new array.
Your way sounds pretty fun though. I’m sure the firmware will complain, but once you have a solid backup you can go nuts!
Also consider a solution such as Bachefs - RAID is cool and all, but this will get you most of the way there too. (Decide on the data safety for yourself but I’m running a 90tb pool with 24tb of metadata / cache on SSD)
The “Right answer” is copy all the content to another device, upgrade disks, copy content back to new array that can take advantage of the larger disks. Or even safer, set up a completely new device in parallel and then copy data over, decommission the old device.
Some RAID systems will let you do what you say, but will not let you expand the usable storage space. Some will have particular disks they’ll even take. It really depends on the RAID system.
How on earth do I keep my photos from rotating in all of these?
I take a picture on my phone in portrait. I upload it, it’s rotated to landscape. I look at the EXIF, pic on my phone says it’s rotated 90. If I delete that, it rotates to landscape. What do I need to do to keep it vertical?
Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. It’s fast, reliable, has amazing battery life and IMHO it’s handsome as hell.
The last phone I had was a Pixel 3A which was amazing for what it was, so I got myself a Pixel 7a to see if it was comparable.
I love the fun software on the Pixel 7A, it is great as a work phone [the Google assistant interfaces with phone calls in ways that are mind-blowing] but I mostly find myself on the S22U.
Zero complaints on either, but if I had to choose just one, I’d stick to the S22U if I could afford it.
Suuuper weird, when I click the link from the browser, I get to the correct page, but not in the Connect App. Then it’s some blog about old houses and nice places in towns
I don’t, but I also tend to talk about stuff that tends to involve a lot of atypical names or words or slang that gets autocorrected to something wrong a lot when I use swipe, and I can’t be arse to figure out how to get it to work for that stuff, so I just stick to typing it out most of the time. It just feels more natural for me.
I have a feeling you’d end up with a bunch of big drives with small volumes on them if it did work.
Warning you, I’ve had issues with RAID combining SSD and HDD. Basically I was on an older dell server and I wanted to do mirroring and the bios straight up refused to do it because it didn’t want to mix ssds and hdds.
I suspect I’ll have an issue after reading many of the comments. This is also an older Dell server. My only real advantage is that it’s currently hosting 2 VMs and one is just a test server, so I don’t mind losing the data.
Imaging software is a godsend for that sort of thing. I ended up using BartPE for something like that, and it worked great – it has a free imaging program on it. You only need a removable drive large enough for all your files since it’ll compress everything.
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