I assume you are losing the RAID controller and considering software mirroring?
Don't do it if you can avoid it. I had the startup disks on my Exchange server software mirrored in NT. Well, wouldn't you know it, the sectors with the mirror information were some of the ones to go bad? Couldn't break the mirror, couldn't recover gracefully, ended up doing a "disaster recovery" style system restoration. If you want redundancy stay with some kind of hardware mirror or RAID. There are some IDE mirroring controllers that different reviewers have had good impressions upon using. -Nate Nathan Smith McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C. 515.288.3667 -----Original Message----- From: Danna D. Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:24 PM To: SQL Subject: advice I am currently running SQL Server 2000 and ColdFusion MX on a DELL server with Windows 2000 Server, Raid Controller with 10,000 RPM SCSI hard drives. We are considering switching to 7200 RPM IDE hardrives and the use of mirroring to replace the raid controller...Is there any references that you can share that would enlighten me on the pros and cons of both. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=6 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=6 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
