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Lets' say I do this... put all drives in Raid 5 or Raid 1
with the hot spare.
Any recommendations on how to partition it out.
Domain has about 25 - 30K accounts in it... so it's relatively
small.
Thanks, -- Matt
Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:44 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] New System Setup My
assumption based on the question is that the domain isn’t big enough for there
to be perf issues at the i/o end of things. RAID1 with a hot standby works too.
Given the 4hr or overnight replacement parts service on most new servers, might
as well RAID5 them and get the extra space. I don’t know enough about how the
RAID controller works to guess about which of the two scenarios has more of an
impact. --brian From:
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On Behalf Of Peter
Johnson The other option,
depending on size of domain, to take Brian statement into account, is to RAID 1
the first 2 drives and have the 3rd drive as a hot standby. This is
based on the idea that mirroring tends to be quicker than RAID 5. But at small
write levels it makes very little difference as Brian pointed out. I’m just
thinking that I hot standby might be an option from a point of view of
availability. Which would have less
performance impact, calculating the missing/parity data on a RAID 5 set or
rebuilding the mirror to a host standby? Regards Peter
JOhnson From:
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Desmond Just
RAID5 the three of them together. 1 on its own is a silly idea in a server
really if it supports raid. 15K RPM drives are going to sustain a significant
amount of iops before you see a perf hit. From:
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On Behalf Of Matt
Brown Hi, I have a new server with 4GB Ram
and 3 (72GB) 15K drives. Wondering what the best way to set this up would
be. I was planning on doing a raid mirror on 2 of the drives and having
the 3rd by itself. any suggestions on how I should partition / where I
should install the OS / ntds files, etc. Will be my new main Active
Directory Server. Thanks, -- Matt Brown
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