Why is my mac mini not using both hard drives?

I have a mid 2010 mac mini server, with OSX Lion installed. It has dual 500gb hard drives.
I've been backing up all my important files to it, and I've always assumed that once I filled one disc, it would seamlessly transfer over to the other and continue backing up. This does not seem to be the case.
I'm at roughly 495gb of data, and when I try to move a 10gb file onto my server, it tells me that I don't have enough disc space to continue the operation.
What can I do to make use of both drives?
-Thanks

I am not familiar with OS X Server setups, so it may be possible it can automatically spillover from one drive to the next. But this is not something with which I'm familiar. Maybe you should post your query in the Mac OS X Lion Server forum.
You cannot make a RAID array of the two drives without losing all the files, so that would not be an alternative unless you had a way to backup everything first.
The Mini uses notebook sized SATA drives. The largest currently available is 1 TB, so you could install dual 1 TB drives.

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