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
I am about to build a new server, but I have always used static drives. We have
about a hundred users.
HI Don -
Yes.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:29 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Do most of you prefer to build Exchange servers on RAID?
I am about
We build all ours raid1 system drive(not so big) and raid1 data drive(big)
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Holstrom, Don dholst...@nbm.org wrote:
I am about to build a new server, but I have always used static drives. We
have about a hundred users.
Yes,
As installing it on a non-raided drive would be a RBE for me (Resume Building
Event).
I would also recommend you grab a copy of this book as many things have changed
in Exchange 2010 and
It would help you a great deal in planning and implementation.
Mastering Exchange Server 2010 by McBee,
2 separate arrays with 6 hard drives total
RAID 1 (2 hard drives mirrored) for Windows
RAID 5 (3 hard drives + 1 spare) for Exchange database + log files
From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:dholst...@nbm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:29 PM
To: MS-Exchange
Long ago, I believe the recommendations were:
C:\ = raid 1 - OS - can share physical drives with D:
D:\ = raid 1 - Misc - can share physical drives with C:
E:\ = raid 5 or 10 - Exchange DBs - separate physical drives not same as F:
F:\ = raid 5 or 10 - Exchange logs - separate physical drives not
The version of Exchange you're building is fairly important here
I would avoid RAID 5 for logs. If performance is of any concern*, the write
penalty with RAID 5 would be disadventageous. Use RAID 1 or 10. Although
RAID 1/10 is generally recommended for DBs, RAID 5 can adequately support
