Hello todd, Thursday, August 28, 2003, 3:31:48 PM, you wrote:
tsmn> Use the Raid 5 and create several Partitions. Raid5 has the best tsmn> combination of Read/Write Speed, redundancy and utilization of storage I like the redundancy, problem is the spool folder is an equal % of read/write and RAID 5 is the slowest writing tsmn> that you can get with the three drives. Raid0 increases the chances of tsmn> server failure if any drive goes down, the array cannot be rebuilt and you tsmn> must start from scratch or restore from a backup, i.e. increased down I guess this is my dilema. I just need to decide on Speed vs. Redundancy tsmn> What type of connection are you hanging the server on, T1 etc? We have a 5Mb connection via ethernet. tsmn> 1. NTFS OS tsmn> 2. NTFS Programs tsmn> 3. Fat32 Swap & Spool ( partition only needs to be a couple gig if swap only ) tsmn> 4. Fat32 for Spool, if you want separate drive. Why do you recommend FAT32 for the Swap and Spool drives? -- Best regards, David mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
