Re: Is it a good practice to have the system files within the RAID 5 setup?

Wow, the same question twice in one weekend!

The answer is that as long as you have a hardware Raid controller, you can
put your system partition on a Raid-5 disk system. All of my current SBS2000
and 2003 servers are configured with the system partition on Raid-5. They
work fine.

However, that's not to say that, given enough disk spindles, that a better
scenario would be to use a two disk Raid-1 mirror setup for your systme
partiton, and then a spearate Raid-5 setup for your data and applicaiton
requirements.

--
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"Barry McConomy" <smile@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:115iqdjo55cucef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi
>
> Raid 5 (Hardware Controller)
>
> Is it a good practice to have the system files within the RAID 5 setup?
>
> I seam to remember that you can't setup a Raid 5 within Windows 2000
> Server using the Disk Manager
>
>
> Regards
> Barry
>
>
>


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