RAID 10 still best for DB's?



We run Exchange 2003 Enterprise. We have 3 Mailbox stores which had 1-2
databases in each and each maiailbox store in on a RAID 10 partition.

We use to have them on RAID 5 at it was very slow sometimes, our average
writes/reads to disk per second were sometimes hitting > 50 msecs. Now on
RAID 10 we sometimes get the odd >30 msecs but many when backups are
running.

We are going to be upgrading our server soon, would RAID 10 be the best way?
Plus we will eventually upgrade this new server to Exchange 2007.


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