DAS PowerVault 220S and 2*2950 Active/Passive SQL Cluster

Hoping someone might help on this sizing problem:
I have ordered 2 * 2950s for DAS to a Dell PowerVault221S

On each node I will have
2 * 36GB drive RAID 1 for local OS on each node
2 * 73GB drive RAID 0 for a local backup destination

On the shared storage / powervault I have:
2 * 36GB for tran logs Raid1
4 * 73GB for the Data - RAID 10

Now I understand I need 2 more drives for the quorum, and the smallest
I could chose is
2 * 36GB

this seems very expensive when you only need maybe 1 GB of space. And
then I'm lead to believe I need another 2*36 gb for the MS DTC!

I understand I can share the MS DTC and Quorum but don't know how
detrimental this could be - any stats out there? Otherwise it's
another £600 to use best practice.

Many thanks
Rob.

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Relevant Pages

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