2 disks RAID 1 for system 6 disks RAID 10 for other Why you think that raid 10 less redundancy then raid 5? I think more, because one disk can degrade in each part 1, for 6 disk you can degrade for three disks without trouble, with raid 5 after second disk degrade you lose all data. Same if two disk degrade in one part 1
Other variant 2 disks RAID 1 for system 4 disks RAID 10 for other 2 hot spare disks Best regards, Anatoly Podgoretsky http://www.podgoretsky.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Ens To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:39 PM Subject: Raid Config I've got the new Proliant in the door and ready to go. What do you think is my best configuration option? I've got 8 x 146GB drives and am considering either a mirror of striped disk or a Raid 1 plus a raid 5. The purpose of the box is to run hyper-v and I want to store at least four virtual servers on it. Install the base OS on the raid 1, and then store the vhds on the raid 5. Or just created partitions on the stripe and mirror the entire thing. The raid 1 + 5 gives me a hot spare. The Raid 0 +1 gives me more speed but less redundancy. Comments are welcome. Thanks. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
