Just interested in this one, for a standard decent business level 2003 file server or small SBS server what is the preferred or recommended raid setup.
The ones I've seen have 2 mirrored disks for the OS and 3 disks in raid 5 for data, however the other day was in a data centre with Dell Servers and these appeared to have 4 disks in a raid 5 (I assume), 4x145GB 15k the data drive was 300GB so I assume 4 disk raid 5 with the drive partitioned.
This setup saves a disk however does it impact on real world performance, machine had plenty of ram 4GB so I guess to minimise page file use.
The ones I've seen have 2 mirrored disks for the OS and 3 disks in raid 5 for data, however the other day was in a data centre with Dell Servers and these appeared to have 4 disks in a raid 5 (I assume), 4x145GB 15k the data drive was 300GB so I assume 4 disk raid 5 with the drive partitioned.
This setup saves a disk however does it impact on real world performance, machine had plenty of ram 4GB so I guess to minimise page file use.