Adding new drive of different size, how to expand pool size and mirror?

That is simply not possible with ZFS. All drives in a single vdev are treated as if they had the size of the smallest one.

Redundancy is managed at the vdev level, you cannot mirror pools.

All vdevs in a single pool are striped, there is no striped or concatenated vdev.

You can add a mirror 2x2T vdev to the existing pool but that would require two new drives.

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