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WD 3TB recommendations for Pro Pioneer?
Hi I have a Pro Pioneer stacked with five WD RE4 drives (WD2003FYYS-01T8B0 and WD2003FYYS-02W0B0) and would like to start incrementing to 3TB WDC drives or greater starting from the sixth drive. ...
Ok. As mdgm says, there are two expansion limits - you can't go expand past 16 TiB, and you can't expand more than 8 TiB from your starting point.
In your case, you remember starting with a ~6 TB volume size (4x2TB xraid2) - which is about 5.4 TiB. So you can expand up to 13.4 TiB (14.7 TB). This limit looks like it will kick in when you add the last 3 TB drive (volume space for 6x3TB single redundancy is ~15 TB, a few hundred GB too high).
Options include
(a) stop at 5x3TB+2TB
(b) switch to dual redundancy - giving you greater protection. The main issue there is that it requires 4 3TB drives up front to expand.
(c) Install the first 3 TB drive in slot 6, and then do a factory reset. You'll need to reinstall any add-ons, reconfigure the NAS,and restore data from backup - definitely a pain. But your new expansion ceiling would be 16 TiB. If your memory is incorrect on the drives at initial install, you will likely need the factory reset anyway (as the expansion will fail before you expect).
What firmware are you running?
In your case, you remember starting with a ~6 TB volume size (4x2TB xraid2) - which is about 5.4 TiB. So you can expand up to 13.4 TiB (14.7 TB). This limit looks like it will kick in when you add the last 3 TB drive (volume space for 6x3TB single redundancy is ~15 TB, a few hundred GB too high).
Options include
(a) stop at 5x3TB+2TB
(b) switch to dual redundancy - giving you greater protection. The main issue there is that it requires 4 3TB drives up front to expand.
(c) Install the first 3 TB drive in slot 6, and then do a factory reset. You'll need to reinstall any add-ons, reconfigure the NAS,and restore data from backup - definitely a pain. But your new expansion ceiling would be 16 TiB. If your memory is incorrect on the drives at initial install, you will likely need the factory reset anyway (as the expansion will fail before you expect).
What firmware are you running?
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