Re: Buy 2nd server? Advice needed

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From: Cris Hanna \(SBS-MVP\) (crishannanospam_at_computingpossibilities.net)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:49:10 -0500

You really can't setup a "redundant" SBS server
If you are looking to provide more reliable storage, you should be looking
at RAID. Raid 1 would give you a "mirror" image of the main drive. In the
event the main drive fails, you simply replace it with the mirror

or
RAID 5. Data spread over a minimum of 3 drives. Unlikely all 3 drives will
fail at one time. if a drive goes bad, then you replace the bad drive and
it automatically rebuilds the array. 

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"John" <john@dontreply.net> wrote in message
news:OG2Dc.17$z81.3@fed1read01...
> Hello,
> Wanted to buy some new scsi drives but they are expensive. U320, hot
> pluggable. Client wants to backup to disk, in addition to tape. The new
> single scsi drive, internal, would be for backup only. I looked at a new
> Dell server with a scsi controller and 2 scsi drives for about $300 more.
> The Dell server provides the same storage space. Everyone talks about
having
> a redundant server...is this a good time to buy one? I would just load XP
on
> the new server and use it as network storage. Or is the maintenance of the
> new server eventually prohibitive? Thanks in advance,
> John
>
>
>

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