explane/ help me spec a server.

[hargi]

Im looking to spec a server to run moodle on and maybe mahara for student portfolios for 500 users each having about 1 gig of space each.

Im looking at a IBM x3650 7979 quad-core xeon e5410 2.33 GHZ as this supports raid 5.

This is my first server that i have had to spec and would like to know how you would go about it.

This server has 6 bays how would i set these up. would i have one with just the opperating system on mirrored to another drive? and then 3 of the others set for data with raid 5 to the last remaining drive?

How would this be backed up?

TIA

 

[hargi]

so i could just fill up all the bays 6. and in effect have 5 disks and the other as the RAID5.
as for budget I dont know I think we will have to go down the tape route