Re: Best way to configure drives?

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From: root (postmaster_at_buchanangc.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:37:14 -0700

"Edward Lee" <elee@ulgm.org> wrote in message
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> I'm helping another local non-profit install SBS2k3. Their server has
> hardware RAID and four 9gb SCSI drives. Thoughts on the best way to
> configure these four drives?

All in RAID 5.

> One thought I had was to mirror two of the drives for the OS and program
> files and use the other two for data. Another thought was to use the four
> drives in a RAID 5 array. Other thoughts? What would be best?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Lee
>
>

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