Re: New Server RAID setup

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From: Andrew J. Kelly (sqlmvpnooospam_at_shadhawk.com)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:53:15 -0400

How you should configure the drives depends a lot on what your going to do
with them. If you app is relatively small or only has a few transactions
per second that approach sounds fine. The more trans / sec you get the more
likely you will see disk issues unless you place the log file on it's own
Raid 1. I would say start witht he Raid 1+0 and see how it goes. 

-- 
Andrew J. Kelly  SQL MVP
"RAJ" <RAJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:281E5061-F153-4635-82D4-2EB720D27A4B@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> I have a new IBM eServer w/ 5 identical HD's.  I'm new to SQL and I'm
researching the best HD configuration.  I've come to the conclusion that
using 4 of the HD's for a RAID 10 configuration and keeping the 5th drive as
a hotswap backup drive.  With that said I have two questions.
> 1.  Can I go wrong creating a RAID 10 & a hotswap drive?
> 2.  I there anything else I should consider regarding the config. of the
HD's?
> Any and all suggestions welcome!
> Thank You!
>
> -- 
> RAJ

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