William I understand your point and agree - to a point. In a small organization 30 people - who do daily backups (and everyone should do daily backups). The chances of the database HD getting corrupted, realizing that is the only issue, then restoring it - is very slim in a small shop or even in most big shops
You are knowledgeable enough to diagnose that but most exchange admin are not. Most look for other issues first. Once again the benefit for a small organization is very - very small. ellery -----Original Message----- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server sizing For performance and disaster recovery, without going into detail, the most important installation aspect in my mind is to maintain the logs and databases on separate spindles. William -----Original Message----- From: Ratini Heidi - IL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server sizing Isn't it better to have one container setup as a mirror for OS drive & core EXCHANGE installation and another RAID 5 container setup for logs, store, etc. I thought I read a tip here from someone noting not to RAID 5 the whole shaabang because the pagefile changes so much that it costs you more performance in a RAID 5 config... Heidi -----Original Message----- From: Ellery July [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Server sizing Go with Dell, HP, or IBM , 3-18 gig disk or 4-9 gig Raid. P3/866 with 1 meg. More memory is better. Four disks give smoother transitions if one fails. It will cost about 5K which includes three years of service. Compaq cost to much (about $1,200 more), limits your ability to use third party stuff, and offer no additional benefit. I know I use both Dell and Compaq servers. ellery july Technical Lead Northwest Area Foundation 332 Minnesota e-1201 St. Paul, MN 55101 email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone - 651-225-3895 fax - 651-225-7695 -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 7:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Server sizing I just need some suggestions on server sizing and configuration. I am new to using Exchange and I want to verify/confirm some information and outside vendor is giving me. I have about 30 users that I want to put on exchange 2k. I need to determine the server hardware config. (ie. hard drive space, cpu, etc.). Thanks everyone for all your help. JK List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
