Comments on: Extend HDD with HP Proliant http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/extend-hdd/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:14:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: marcellarhughes http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/extend-hdd/#comment-102860 marcellarhughes Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:58:20 +0000 #comment-102860 I have opened Disk Management, In Windows 7, and have got an unallocated part of my hard disk drive showing up. I want to add that on to my primary volume. so i can use it. but how? I would have to do this to create my email protection.

]]> By: gabe9527 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/extend-hdd/#comment-97914 gabe9527 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:31:40 +0000 #comment-97914 Specs taken from -

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12477_na/12477_na.html

(8) small form factor (SFF) hot-plug drive bays to support Serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) drives

If you have used up the 8 internal disks then you will need to purchase more storage. Direct Attached or NAS or SAN etc.

Then there are several options for doing this….

1: User a Partition expansion software like Partition Magic (the Disk will still need to be added to the array)

2: Expand the RAID Set – This will depend on the RAID controller to whether this will in tail a restore of data or not (most new RAID cards will do this on the fly)

3: You could map the other disk/s into the other drive as a mounted folder.
How to create and use NTFS mounted drives
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889

Note: If you are only adding 1 disk and not RAID’d then there is no redundancy so mirrored disk would be advisable. (so if restricted bays then this will need weighing up against rebuilding via restore).

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