What is your current system? Hardware and OS? Is it using SCSI, SATA, SAS, PATA? Is it hardware RAID? Does it hot swap?
Frankly, if your hardware hot swaps, and it's SATA or SAS, it might be cheaper and more efficient to swap out disks one at a time, let the array rebuild and then expand your space. Once you've replaced the drives, Win2k3+ should recognize the new (unpartitioned) space, and allow you to expand the current partition to fill it. As pointed out, if they can't say for sure that they don't need it, then they probably *do* need it. Kurt On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 13:09, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow - nobody? > > > > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:18 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Archive data > > > > Do any of you guys have an automated method for migrating old, unused user > data off your primary servers? I’m talking about data users don’t want to > have deleted, but they maintain for “I might need it someday” purposes. > > > > To accommodate this I would think a cheap RAID1 NAS should be sufficient, > there is no need for high-speed, multiple user access. I’m thinking it would > be a very cheap way to pull a TB or so off our SAN…. > > David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
