Add external storage to increase mac mini capacity help!

We have a Mac mini mountain lion server with 1 Tb storage. We have 12 macs file sharing off the mini. We have maxed the 500 gb storage. We have purchased a 4 tb storage to extend the drive so we can keep adding to the files. It is a mini stack with FireWire. How do I install this so the additional 4 tb can be added to the existing Mac mini server? Please help thanks.

Realistically you cannot just join it to the internal drive to make one bigger one. (There is a way but it is a bad idea.)
What you can do is move the shared files to the external drive, or have some on the internal, and the rest on the external. I would recommend just using the external. You would then use the internal drive for booting, and the external drive for data.
Are you just referring to file-sharing or other uses?
For file-sharing it would basically be copy the existing folder(s) to the external drive, unshare the internal drive folders, and share the drive or folder(s) on the external drive.

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