Flexraid questions

I've tried searching for the past couple of hours and couldn't come up with clear answers to my questions so I figured I would ask here. I'm leaning on the fence between Flexraid and Storage Spaces, and I have a few Flexraid questions. I've been using Raid-5 for years so I'm very familliar with that, but I'm out of the loop when it comes to pooling and how it works with parity. Hopefully someone can help.

1) If I have 3 DRU drives that are and 1PPU drive all at 2TB, and 1 of my DRU fails, will I be able to access all of my data in a degraded mode similar to Raid 5? I figure its either that, or the data on that drive won't be accessible until I perform a repair with a new drive.

2) If I start a pool in cruise control, can I switch that pool to expert mode later in the future without a giant hassle, or will it always be stuck in cruise control?

3) If I have 3 2TB DRU and 1 2TB PPU I know I can loose 1 drive. If I change the PPU to a single 4TB drive, could I recover 2 of the 2TB DRU?

Thank you

Thanks for answering the questions. I initially installed Storage Spaces today to try it out, and I was unimpressed by the write speed as I knew I probably would be, but I wanted to try it anyway. I was averaging around 20MB's with my current SATA II drives. These speeds were still better or on par with the crappy performance of the Thecus N4100Pro that I was replacing.

I deleted my Storage Spaces pool and installed Flexraid and after a lot of trial and error I got it working. Now I'm transferring at around 100MB's and I'm happy with it so far. I definitely need to play around with it some more and see how things work out.

I will say as a potential customer I think Flexraid is doing themselves a disservice by not having a simple tutorial video out on there product. I was originally going to go with FreeNas and changed my mind because I wanted a windows HTPC and a NAS in one. I tried Storage Spaces first because there are a lot of videos showing how easy it is to setup and use. Flexraid really should do something similar. They only reason I really looked into Flexraid more was because of the discussion here on AVS which I'm a long time member of.