Western Digital Red 4 TB: Any Hope for Ultra-6 HCL?

StephenB wrote:

The other is that a volume cannot grow more than 8 TiB from its starting point. So if you started with 2x1TB on your initial install you'd have a 1 TB volume starting point. The growth limit would take you to a bit more than 9 TB. So you wouldn't get to 14 or 16 in that case. I don't know what you actually had installed when you did the original installation, so I don't know what your actual growth limit is.

Thanks.

I don't remember my initial config... I want to say it was a full house of 2-TB drives, but wouldn't bet the mortgage money on it.

My take-home from this: Try a couple 4 TB drives... see what happens... and be prepared to do a factory reset.

Tangentially: I am thinking that dual redundancy might be overkill for somebody who has current backup.
Could I drop back from dual redundancy to single redundancy without resetting? i.e. just flip something, let it churn for awhile, and come back to increased capacity?