We have a 16 TB volume that lives on a SAN LUN attached to a Windows 2008 file server. We are unable to expand the SAN LUN any further on it's current SAN and will need to have our storage team purchase an additional SAN enclosure to add capacity. With that said does anyone have experience with converting an existing basic Windows volume into a dynamic disk so that we may expose several new LUNs and use dynamic striped or spanned disks so that we may increase the capacity of our drive? Will this take forever? Is there a great chance of corruption?
Additionally the per fsutil the current 16 TB volume is using a 4KB cluster size. Will this limit the size without formatting?
C:\Users\admin\ fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo d:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x9246519846517e43
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x00000007cffbefff
Total Clusters : 0x00000000f9ff7dff
Free Clusters : 0x000000001b1c8f40
Total Reserved : 0x0000000000000000
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 0x00000000ac420000
Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x000000007cffbeff
Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000eacadbe0
Mft Zone End : 0x00000000eacb82a0
RM Identifier: 6CBB62D9-FE1A-11E2-9628-D89D672B218F
Thanks for any info!