Adding an Internal Hard Drive
The HP Media Vault’s primary system hard disk uses the Serial
ATA (SATA) interface. The internal expansion bay accommodates a
second SATA disk. (The server does not support adding Integrated
Drive Electronics (IDE) disks.)
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Note |
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You should not remove or add a hard
disk to the server while it is powered on and running.
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To add a hard drive to an expansion bay |
- Press the power button on the
back of the Media Vault for about five seconds and release it to
turn off the server.
- Open the door on the front of the Media Vault.
- Press the lever to unlock the handle.
- Lift the handle all the way up.
- Gently pull the hard-drive tray from the expansion bay.
- Fold down the flap near the back of the hard-drive tray.
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Note |
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This flap improves air flow through the server. If you
remove a drive, be sure to fold this flap back up.
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- Insert the new drive into the left side of the hard-drive
tray, making sure that the pins go into the hard drive’s mounting
holes.
- Flex the right side-rail, and then insert the pins into
the hard drive’s mounting holes.
- With the handle up, slide the hard-drive tray and drive
into the expansion bay.
- Press down on the handle on the hard-drive tray until
it locks.
- Close the door on the front of the server.
- Press the power button on the back of the Media Vault
to turn it on.
- Notice that within a few seconds the light-bar for the
new hard drive turns purple .
- This indicates that the hard drive has been installed, but
has not been initialized.
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To add a hard drive to total storage |
- At the computer, click Start, All
Programs, HP Media Vault, and then Control
Center.
- On the Tools tab, click Customize
HP Media Vault.
- You are prompted for an administrator name and password if
you set one up. For additional information, see Editing System Settings.
- On the Disks tab, locate the
internal disk you want to add.
- Click Add.
- Select an option for allocating the disk space.
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Caution |
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It is important to select the storage space allocation
option with care. Changing how the storage space is allocated later
may require you to transfer all of the files to a separate device
and reformat the drives.
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- Allocate disk to
make current storage mirrored (protects current storage, RAID 1) -
adds the internal drive as mirrored storage space.
- The type of mirroring supported on the Media Vault is called Redundant
Array of Independent Disks (RAID) RAID-1.
- In RAID-1 mirroring, an identical copy of data written to
one hard disk is written to a second hard disk. Mirroring disks
reduces your total hard disk storage capacity by half. The advantage
is that if one hard disk fails, you have a copy of your data on
the second hard disk.
- Allocate disk to expand current storage (increases
current storage) - combines the available space from
the system drive and the internal hard drive to make one large logical
disk. The drive space is not mirrored. If a non-mirrored drive fails,
the files stored on the failed drive are lost. If a drive is removed
from the HP Media Vault, the system is not operational until the
drive is replaced.
- Click Accept.