Has anyone played with the newer motherboards that support onboard IDE raid?
I was looking at one a week or two back which supported 4 IDE channels. It
was around $AU300, so its probably around $US100 stateside?
A nice solution for a small office might be 4 IDE drives (one per channel)
forming 2 hardware RAID1 volumes... very cheap and redundant.
Cheers,
Marty
-----Original Message-----
From: Lefkovics, William
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Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 7:15 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server sizing
For a small business, those separate spindles can even be
separate, single
IDE drives.
William
-----Original Message-----
From: Ellery July [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server sizing
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
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-----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
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