Dear Data Hoarders, I need your advice:
I spent the last year stitching together 2 data servers. Each of them consists of a Raspberry 5 and 5x5TB of old ext4 HDDs. All of those 5 HDDs were mounted with a cheap HDD-Bay. I put each server with all of the cables in some Tupperware, drilled some holes in the sides, screwed a PC-Fan on top and called them "arctica" and "antarctica". It was lovely. Then something unexpected happend: I moved in with someone. This someone also has a child. My whole life configuration changed, and after the dust had settled I realised that I won't be able to employ this setup any more. It felt way too hacky anyways.
So, now it is time for change. Since I am not using the raspberries any more I am pretty much left with 10x5TB of ext4 HDDs. I remember the pain I went through converting them all from NTFS. All of them were full, so I had to copy all of them before converting. Lost some data along the way.
I need them connected to a windows machine now. Fuck.
I am familiar with "Paragon Linux File Systems for Windows" and Ubuntu Subsystem on WIndows 11. They do not do their jobs as I need it. I need them as drives connected to my machine.
I would be terribly greatful for any advice.