Or this could be a good time to schedule some weekend work and test your D/R procedures. If ease and lack of any downtime is your number one concern and this box is going to stay around for a while, I would look at getting an external drive cage. This would allow you to setup your new raid drive set, then you can just move the db's to your new drive set. If you setup the new box on a separate channel of the controller you could also do some drive performance tuning by looking at the placement of your db's, logs files and page file in reference to the number of physical arms you would have. The external box could also grow into your next server so it would not be a lost investment to your company.
-----Original Message----- From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:55 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Upgrading Exchange Server Hard Disk Put server on bench hang new drives off to side on systems and use optimizer to move! -----Original Message----- From: Jees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 8:47 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Upgrading Exchange Server Hard Disk No MB, I don't have two spare slots. I want remove the current 3 disks (each 18gb) and replace with either 2/3 new 36gb hd. I have breifly stopped putting in the two 36hd, because, its important to have raid 5. So i have placed an order for another 36gb hd. Will update you later on --- Martin Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have 2 spare slots to put those drives in? If > so do that. Then use > the performance optimizer to move the stores. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jees > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:54 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Upgrading Exchange Server Hard Disk > > Hi guys, > > Will be gratefull if you can contribute to this > please. > > I have an Exchange 5.5, sp4 server on win 2k with > sp4. > > In my Dell Power Edge 2400, i have two scsi disks > (0&1) within this exchange server. Disk 1 has 3 18g > hds with a logical drive > of G. > > G contains Exchsrvr folder which hosts priv.edb and > pub.edb. its like > g:\exchsrvr\mdbdata\ and the two edb files. > > Now, G is near capacity and would like to upgrade it > to bigger space. > > I have purchased two 36gb hd from Dell (based on > Dell's advise), and ready > to be backing up the G drive and the rest. > > I would like you to feel free to suggest any tips > and tricks that u know > off, or any advise. > > Thanking you > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: > http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: > http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english > To unsubscribe: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
