Any standalone server that gets rolled out here has a single RAID 1 (mirror) at a minimum. These days you can get that for little more than the cost of a second drive with the pseudo hardware raid available in the motherboard chipset. Even Dell desktops have that option.
It's a small price to pay when the hard drive is the probably the least reliable hardware component. IMO, it's the cheapest/easiest way to reduce unplanned downtime. ~JasonG > -----Original Message----- > From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org] > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 15:29 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Do most of you prefer to build Exchange servers on RAID? > > I am about to build a new server, but I have always used static drives. > We have about a hundred users.
