Adding a second hard drive
Adding a second hard drive lets you expand the file storage capacity of your hosting appliance or provide disk redundancy to ensure complete recovery of domain, user, and configuration files in case of a disk failure. After you add a second hard drive to your appliance, use the Web-based interface to configure how it will be used by extending the /home directory or mirroring the first hard drive.
Installing the hard drive
The procedures below describe how to install an additional hard drive to your hosting appliance.
To install the hard drive in the mounting bracket
This procedure assumes that the mounting bracket has been removed from the drives.
- Place the drive in the mounting bracket with the component side down and the front of the drive facing the front (tabbed) end of the mounting bracket.
- Align the four mounting-bracket screw holes with the mating holes (two on each side) in the drive housing.
- Use a Phillips screwdriver and four screws to securely attach the mounting bracket to the drive. Do not overtighten the screws; the bracket sides can bend inward, which affects the alignment of the tabs with the slots in the front panel.
To install the hard drive in the drive bay
Perform this procedure to install the mounting bracket with the hard drive in the drive bay.
- Connect the power and data cables to the back of the drive.
- Position the drive in the server drive bay so that the end of the bracket with the tabs is facing the server front panel.
- Gently guide the bracket tabs into the mating slots in the server front panel.
- Align the two holes in the back of the bracket with the two chassis snaptop standoffs.
- Press down on the back of the mounting bracket until the two snaptop standoffs snap into the mating holes in the bracket.

Configuring the hard drive
Once you have installed a new hard drive, you can configure it through the hosting appliance's Web interface. Configuration options include:
- Extending the /home directory
- Mirroring the disk
Regardless of how you will configure it, make sure the new drive is:
- The same type of drive as the original hard drive. The 1010 Hosting Appliance uses an IDE drive, and the 1020 Hosting Appliance uses a SCSI drive.
- The same size or larger as the original drive.
Note: You can't change the usage of an additional hard drive after it has been configured for /home directory extension or disk mirroring.
Extending the /home directory
Warning: When extending the /home directory, all data in that directory will be lost. Remember to back up the data in /home before performing this operation so that you can restore the data and then use its expanded storage capacity.
To extend the /home directory
- Install the hard drive (see Installing the drive above).
- At the the Status page of the interface, click the more... link next to Drive
space usage.
The Second
drive status field at the bottom of the page will show the current status of the newly installed drive.
- Remember to back up the contents of the /home directory so that you can restore domains and users after the new drive is configured!
- Click Extend
/home directory.
This process runs in the background. A percentage bar will show the progress as the disk is formatted.
- When the extension is complete, reboot the hosting appliance
- Restore the contents of the /home directory.
All subsequent file copying will be done using standard RAID level-0 disk striping.
Mirroring the disk
To mirror the disk
- Install the hard drive (see Installing
the drive above).
- At the Status page of the interface, click the more...
link next to Drive
space usage. The
Second drive status field at the bottom of the page will show the current status of the newly installed drive.
- Click Disk
mirroring. This process runs in the background. A percentage bar will show the progress of the mirroring. (For a full IDE drive, mirroring can take up to 120 minutes to complete. For a full SCSI drive, it takes 10-15 minutes.)
- When the disk mirroring is complete, reboot the hosting appliance.
