It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/CaptainLarryLobster on 2025-07-02 01:02:16.

Hey all, I've got a homelab running raid 5. I'm out of storage and want to upgrade. I've decided that the redundancy isn't necessary in my application.I found two cheap SAS drives. I want to transfer my data to these drives and then reformat the raid and run it my drives with mergeFS. My case only has room for 6 drives so I'm planning on using the two extra smaller drives in another system.

My issue is that i have the drives running on an HBA through the only PCIE slot on the board. What would be the best way to connect the SAS drives for the data transfer prior to putting them in the system.

I've tried researching this but I can't find anything to help with this.

Thanks!