Re: Windows Server Configuration

2006-08-25 Thread William R. Mussatto
Just noticed that you said partitions. I am assuming that you meat multiple drives in a raid array. Bill David Lazo said: > Thanx again. > > For the time being, we will keep 4 drives with Dan's suggestion. OS and > MySQL running from there. > > > > On 8/25/06 11:03 AM, "Dan Buettner" <[EMAIL PR

Re: Windows Server Configuration

2006-08-25 Thread David Lazo
Thanx again. For the time being, we will keep 4 drives with Dan's suggestion. OS and MySQL running from there. On 8/25/06 11:03 AM, "Dan Buettner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, with just 4 drives, you can set up one big RAID 10 disk > (usually called a "logical disk", with Dell PERCs I

Re: Re: Re: Windows Server Configuration

2006-08-25 Thread Dan Buettner
Sorry, I think I had James and David backwards there! On 8/25/06, Dan Buettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James, with just 4 drives, you can set up one big RAID 10 disk (usually called a "logical disk", with Dell PERCs I think it's a "container"), and then partition it for your different needs.

Re: Re: Windows Server Configuration

2006-08-25 Thread Dan Buettner
James, with just 4 drives, you can set up one big RAID 10 disk (usually called a "logical disk", with Dell PERCs I think it's a "container"), and then partition it for your different needs. If you have 4 73 GB disks, you probably have around 135 GB formatted capacity with RAID 10; I'd do somethin

Re: Windows Server Configuration

2006-08-25 Thread JamesDR
David Lazo wrote: I'm sorry to bother you again with this. So we have the server but we have 4 Drives and now that I'm trying to set up the RAID10 I'm starting to think I needed 5 Drives one for the OS?. Please advise. David. We built one pretty close to this recently. You definitely

Re: Windows Server Configuration

2006-08-22 Thread David Lazo
Thanks for all the recommendations. On 8/22/06 1:11 PM, "Dan Buettner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I second what James recommends re: spindles and RAID 10. Better than > RAID 5 for live data in my opinion; RAID 5 is decent for archival > storage. > > You've got a pretty decent setup there oth

Re: Windows Server Configuration

2006-08-22 Thread Dan Buettner
I second what James recommends re: spindles and RAID 10. Better than RAID 5 for live data in my opinion; RAID 5 is decent for archival storage. You've got a pretty decent setup there otherwise - 4 CPU cores, 8 GB RAM - and you want to make sure your disks can keep things fed. As far as splittin

Re: Windows Server Configuration

2006-08-22 Thread JamesDR
David Lazo wrote: We want to get: Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard x64 Edition 2- Dual Core Intel Xeon 5080, 2x2MB Cache, 3.73GHz, 1066MHz FSB 8GB 533MHz (8x1GB), Dual Ranked DIMMs 3- 146GB, SAS, 3.5-inch, 15K RPM Hard Drives What would be the recommended RAID configuration settings for a dedic