Has anyone done or been asked to do this and what is the general consensus?
I'm doing a small server build, nothing fancy just an off the shelf ML110 G6 with some extra RAM and another disk for software RAID1 in 2008 R2. But I've priced up two 80GB Intel 320s and in the grand scheme of things it's not really that much more expensive, and a bit of a no brainer to go with solid state as they don't need the capacity and you get all the other goodness that comes with them. Problem is old habits die hard and I'm a bit reluctant just to have a single drive in there even though two look overkill on paper.
The stuff that's on there is important but it is backed up and the usage is quite light - only 4 people accessing the database. For the sake of £100 on a server thats hopefully going to be in place for at least 5 years would you add a second drive?
Cheers
I'm doing a small server build, nothing fancy just an off the shelf ML110 G6 with some extra RAM and another disk for software RAID1 in 2008 R2. But I've priced up two 80GB Intel 320s and in the grand scheme of things it's not really that much more expensive, and a bit of a no brainer to go with solid state as they don't need the capacity and you get all the other goodness that comes with them. Problem is old habits die hard and I'm a bit reluctant just to have a single drive in there even though two look overkill on paper.
The stuff that's on there is important but it is backed up and the usage is quite light - only 4 people accessing the database. For the sake of £100 on a server thats hopefully going to be in place for at least 5 years would you add a second drive?
Cheers