Let’s face it: once you start having a home server, you start putting data on it, simply because it is so conveniant. In my case, that means to bring a lot of data from various external disks plus those things archived on DVD back “online” – which usually starts eating up the storage space on your server quite quickly. From the intial 2 Terrabyte (2TB! 2048 GB! 2.097.152 MB! 2.147.483.648 KB!) a little bit over 50% was gone. Plus: there is data that I wish to duplicate but have not done yet, simply because it would be eating up space even more…
Time
Time for a pitstop at the local computer dealer of my trust 🙂 – invest 5 minutes and 80€ to walk out with another WD 1TB Green Power harddisk… to try the following:
- Server is in standby, new disk is mounted in its (plastic) tray – looks pretty un-solid but seems to do the job. No screws, no nothing…
- Put the tray back into the home server and start it up. Two disks come on with blue LEDs on, the new one is pink.
- Fire up the Home Server Console and check the server storage page: the new disk is listes as “non-assigned storage disk”.
- Select the new disk and click Add – a wizard pops up… only two options: Add to storage space or Add as backup drive. We already had that one with the external USB Backup Device – this time, its gonna be Add to Storage Space.
- Confirm that – “You sure you want to format that disk?” – Yeah, man! And let the formatting begin… 30 seconds later: Server now got 3TB of storage space…
That was easy… almost too easy to be true 😉 – where are those times where a server administrator had that magical or almost sacred aura?