Just an opinion, but if your going that route, use Raid 6 if your controller does it. Your scenario puts you in jeopardy the moment one drive fails, as during the rebuild your not redundant. In Raid 6, two can go and bring you down to zero ft which is no worse than what you would have your way accept it can happen faster without loosing it all.
jlc From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare RAID 10 or Raid 5 Haha yup sorry bout that, Webster is correct 8 Drives Plus One Hot Spare, all Fiber 15K From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: VMWare RAID 10 or Raid 5 From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VMWare RAID 10 or Raid 5 Is it safe to assume that you meant RAID 5+1? If not.....what is RAID 8? I believe he means RAID5 configured as 8 drives plus 1 hot spare. Webster _________________________________________________________ This e-mail, including attachments, contains information that is confidential and may be protected by attorney/client or other privileges. This e-mail, including attachments, constitutes non-public information intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail, including attachments, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify me by e-mail reply and delete the original message and any attachments from your system. _________________________________________________________ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
