> Use the Raid 5 and create several Partitions. Raid5 has the best > combination of Read/Write Speed, redundancy and utilization of storage > that you can get with the three drives. Raid0 increases the chances of > server failure if any drive goes down, the array cannot be rebuilt and you > must start from scratch or restore from a backup, i.e. increased down > time. Raid1 has slower right times.
Wrong Todd. Raid5 is poor for read. Think, it has to both allocate and write the data evenly across the set, plus calculate and write the parity bit. This has be plenty of discussion on this list clearly stating Raid5 should not be used for Spool or Mailboxes, both of which are HEAVY read and write. John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
