Drobo: initialize for maximum size

Tip: when initializing the Drobo, initialize for maximum size. When I got mine last year, I quickly choose 2TB as size (seemed enough at that time), but since you can’t resize afterwards without deleting all the data on it, I recently needed to reinitialize it by setting all the data aside (on several disks) and copying it back over. 16TB may see a lot at the moment, but since hard disk sizes keep growing very quickly and the sizes of the digital media as well you can safely bet you’re on that limit sooner then you would expect.

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