If a hard disk on a server threatens to fill up, this can sometimes lead to complications in the normal operating environment.
To correct it right away – no server today has only one hard disk. Even with the smallest devices, at least one RAID array is chosen to ensure at least rudimentary failure safety. Nevertheless, IT jargon still refers to the hard disk being full. And of course, the IT professional then means the volumes that are made available. And for the sake of completeness, it should also be mentioned that servers now often store data on SSDs and no longer necessarily on HDDs. For the sake of simplicity, and because it is actually still often used in this way in specialist circles, we will exceptionally stick to the term hard disks today, but generally mean the “non-volatile memory” in a computer system.
Too little is never good
In the server arena, there are two basic types of capacity deficiencies. One involves the servers themselves. If partitions are chosen too small or if the servers’ areas of application have been expanded, the free capacity of the hard disks can become scarce. If updates and patches exhaust the last reserves of storage capacity, reliable service is often no longer guaranteed. And, as is so often the case, you only notice when the last bit has overflowed the data barrel.
The other type of unpleasant encounter affects users who have already been battered by limited storage capacities. Personal drives no longer hold any data and the IT department is already howling like a wolf again so that mailboxes have to be reduced in size and data garbage removed.
Every IT administrator has faced these problems before. Even PCs go down the tubes when the too-small storage location refuses to allow further work.
Respond in time with Docusnap
True, you can’t increase this storage with Docusnap. But as known from this comprehensive software solution, you can centrally display all occupancy levels on all hard disks (incl. volumes, SSDs) from all systems accessible in the network in a list.
Since Docusnap automatically updates this data at regular intervals, bottlenecks can be detected and eliminated in time. Finally, most systems are capable of being expanded with additional hard drives. This means that failures or complications can be identified from the outset and thus intercepted.
And you can even prove to that one important and always annoying colleague, of which every company has at least one, that he doesn’t need a 2 TB SSD in his notebook after all.
We’ll show you how easy it is to use Docusnap to display a list of the occupancy levels of all storage media (HDDs, SSDs, volumes, etc.) in our short video.:
Docusnap doesn’t just provide this information, though. With this comprehensive documentation and inventory solution, you have countless options for seamlessly recording and evaluating your IT systems as you wish. Docusnap even automatically keeps all data up to date.
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