How do i increase server space

**darren5972** · 18-01-2010

Hi,

I look after the IT at a Primary School this year we have almost used all the space on the server. IIRC its an old IBM server (x series 206) with RAID 1 and a capacity of 70GB. I think C:\ is ~20 GB with 5 GB free and D:\ ~50GB with 1GB free. I don't think there is much money available and a new server isn't financially viable at this point. Ideally I'd like to add the storage internally on the server but if there are good arguments for Storage Servers, NAS and Ext HDD then I could be pursuaded.

I was think of just adding a IDE 500GB HDD inside the server and making sure it was backed up properly but obviously this doesn't have the protection that comes with being part of a RAID array.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Many Thanks

**deoWo** · 19-01-2010

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**Killen** · 19-01-2010

Adding a Raid card to the system will increase the storage by adding 2*1terabytes of storage device should make the server to add on much more space. Adding a raid card would then allot you to add more disks.