Hit 8Tb limit - how to expand to 18T physical?

StephenB wrote:

It sounds to me like you can backup and restore data with normal AFP. Then reset owners/permissions as desired after the install via the "advanced options" tab for each share. If you can locate a file utility that verifies after copying, you might want to use that. Teracopy will do that for Windows - but (being a non-mac guy) I don't know what you could use with OS X. It's reassuring to know that all your data got onto the JBOD with no problems (and equally reassuring when you restore it!).

Excellent idea! I have a thing called SuperDuper for Mac, which is very good at preserving stuff like permissions and metadata - maybe that will do the job nicely. I have to say that it will be MUCH easier to just copy everything using the AFP mount, rather than use rsync. You may just have saved me a ton of work, thank you :)

Point taken about add-ons, but I'm not sure I even have any, to be honest. The only one listed as installed is ReadyNAS Remote - it's not enabled, and I get the feeling that's a pre-installed default anyway(?)