from 2x RAID1 to 1x RAID6 ?

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Greetings, could you please advise me how to proceed?

On a server I have 2 RAID1-arrays, each consisting of 2 TB-drives:

md5 : active raid1 sde1[0] sdf1[1]
      976759936 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md6 : active raid1 sdh1[1] sdg1[0]
      976759936 blocks [2/2] [UU]


md5 and md6 are right now physical volumes (PVs) in an LVM-volume-group.
Nearly all the space is used right now (1.7 TB out of the ~2 TB).

Now I would like to move things to a more reliable RAID6 consisting of
all the four TB-drives ...

How to do that with minimum risk?

For sure it would be best to move all data aside, stop the arrays and
build a new one ... etc

Failing two drives and remove them from the RAID1s to build a new
degraded RAID6 seems dangerous to me?

Maybe I overlook a clever alternative?

Suggestions welcome, thanks in advance.

Stefan
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