RE: 5.5 Raid Config (more Info)

[Gary Wheaton]

Okay,

Here is how the God's of Exchange trained me @ Marriott International. Mirror your System and Log drives, RAID 5 for your Data. This is the fastest and most efficient.

 

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Micciche Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:22 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 5.5 Raid Config (more Info)

Thanks for the input- but there are performance/tolerance advantages if you use RAID 1 and 0 for the OS and Transaction logs (?), and RAID 5 for the IS/DS.  I am looking for that exact config for my 7 SCSI drives.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Wheaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:04 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 5.5 Raid Config

3 9gb drives should do just fine, same disk space AND fault tolerance. If you chose to use software level raid you would lose alot of proc. time to it. Hardware level RAID 5 with todays RAID controllers you should not see any loose in performance.

 

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Micciche Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: 5.5 Raid Config

I need to set up a new Exchange Server and am looking for anything that Microsoft has written about Exchange 5.5: RAID/Performance.  I am being asked why I can just buy a single 18G SCSI disk instead of multiple disks with mirroring and RAID 5.  (Also want to know why (3) 9G Scsi's with RAID 5 isn't good enough for me.)

 

I know this has been BEAT TO DEATH, but could someone please direct me to anything that MS has written on this subject so that I can print it out?  I am in the Disaster Recovery White Paper and am not finding the suggested Config.  It's not in my New Riders 5.5 book either.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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