Re: Exchange 2003 + SAN + Raid5 or 10

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:58:16 -0700, jwilmer
<jwilmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Folks

Which RAID config Raid 5 or 10 will give Exchange the best performance.

My SAN guys are saying Raid 10 for our log drives and raid 5 for our DB
drives.

Is this documented anywhere???

Thanks again

It depends entirely on your SAN.
Microsoft don't document specific SAN configurations.
So, your SAN boys are so unsure about the resilience of the disk
subsystem that they're proposing RAID10?
You need a decent SAN.
.

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