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  • The pins are called “DuPont connectors” - you’d want to chop the LED-side and use a 3 pin female DuPont instead of a 2 pin. If this is something you think you’ll do more than once, I’d buy a crimper on Amazon or wherever (they’re ~$25 last time I checked). But, you could also pull the two wires out of the connector and keep the crimps on them, and then just stick them into the DuPont plastic shell which would avoid needing a new pair of crimpers. To remove them, there’s usually a little tiny plastic tab on one side for each contact that you can pry up with a little tiny screwdriver.



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    1 year ago

    Great explanation. Yes - I’ve done this before! Built up a system with a RAID array but then realized I wanted a different boot drive. Didn’t really want to wait for dual 15Tb arrays to rebuild - and luckily for me, I didn’t have to! Because the metadata is saved on the discs themselves. If I had to guess (I could be wrong though) - I believe ‘sudo mdadm —scan —examine’ should probably bring up some info about the discs, or something similar to that command.