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What sort of raid array do you want? e.g. you can't create a RAIDZ/5 array with 2 disks that will hold more that will fit on a single disk.

The best you could manages with just 2 of the disks is RAID0 (striped only), then add the old pair as a mirror of the first 2 which will potentially give you better performance (reads/writes split across 2 drives) and redundancy to loose 1 disk out of the mirror pairs. But no extra storage as you would still have a max of 2 x disk size.

If you just want to combine the storage and are not interested in data redundancy, then you can create a LVM pool from the 2 new disks, copy the data over and then format the old disks and add them to the pool to get the full 4 x disk size of storage.

What sort of raid array do you want? e.g. you can't create a RAIDZ/5 array with 2 disks that will hold more that will fit on a single disk.

The best you could manages with just 2 of the disks is RAID0 (striped only), then add the old pair as a mirror of the first 2 which will potentially give you better performance (reads/writes split across 2 drives) and redundancy to loose 1 disk out of the mirror pairs. But no extra storage as you would still have a max of 2 x disk size.

What sort of raid array do you want? e.g. you can't create a RAIDZ/5 array with 2 disks that will hold more that will fit on a single disk.

The best you could manages with just 2 of the disks is RAID0 (striped only), then add the old pair as a mirror of the first 2 which will potentially give you better performance (reads/writes split across 2 drives) and redundancy to loose 1 disk out of the mirror pairs. But no extra storage as you would still have a max of 2 x disk size.

If you just want to combine the storage and are not interested in data redundancy, then you can create a LVM pool from the 2 new disks, copy the data over and then format the old disks and add them to the pool to get the full 4 x disk size of storage.

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What sort of raid array do you want? e.g. you can't create a RAIDZ/5 array with 2 disks that will hold more that will fit on a single disk.

The best you could manages with just 2 of the disks is RAID0 (striped only), then add the old pair as a mirror of the first 2 which will potentially give you better performance (reads/writes split across 2 drives) and redundancy to loose 1 disk out of the mirror pairs. But no extra storage as you would still have a max of 2 x disk size.