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I was a bit hasty in my NAS construction and ordered a 500gb m.2 for the bootdrive. Since the OS footprint and whatever else I do with my NAS is extremely basic, the 500gb m.2 is a bit overkill and now I want to downgrade to like a 128gb drive. Ive already ported over quite a bit of data to my array, and dont really want to export it back to their original drives. What would be best course of action to keep the data intact whilst doing the bare minimum? lol. Ive read that cloning the current bootdrive to the smaller drive and plugging and playing should work? Any help with this matter is appreciated.

if youre looking at plex, ide suggest a cpu that has good AV1 capabilities. Intel has good offerings at base i5 12th+ are a good starting point. mobo is whatever you feel that fits your form factor.

changing from a mirrored raid (raid1) to a striped raid (raid5-6) is pretty impossible plug and play. As Durandle said, you'll need to offload your data and rebuild the array.