Re: Upgrade hard drive or add new server?

From: Allen M (ajmiyake_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:08:56 -0800

I got a curious question. How are you going to add another drive to your
RAID mirrored set? If you intend on adding more drives you'll have to break
that mirroed set and create a striped set unless you have another controller
installed.

"SMSUCigarguy" <brian.leas@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1111446757.947489.59180@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Greetings everyone!
>
> I would like the advice of fellow users of SBS2k3. Our firm uses it
> currently for the following uses: Exchange email, our internet site,
> our intranet site via Sharepoint, a database server for our billing
> software, case file storage and My Documents redirection from 6
> clients. We are now running out of hard drive space and I am wondering
> if I ought to just put an additional drive in to expand our storage, or
> should I just get us another server and use it as a file server? We
> are not really having any overhead issues thusfar with the server, a
> Dell PE600SC with 1.5GB of RAM and a 40 GB hard drive. ANy suggestions
> would be appreciated!
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: After manually undoing a recent MS Update, my server is a mess
    ... Keep in mind that I have seen OEM drivers up there so given that you've blown that image away, I can't say for certain that the 'critical' was 100% pushed by Microsoft. ... External USB is no replacement for local drives. ... LOL I show my naivety here when I say that I showed great diligence in my blind application of any MS suggested resolution to "Critical Errors" on my Small Business Server Monitor Report. ... When I got the first BSOD, I booted from the orginal CD and chose to only restore the System files. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: After manually undoing a recent MS Update, my server is a mess
    ... information to login to my server remotely to look around--hoping he could ... External USB is no replacement for local drives. ... stored on) and chose to only restore the System files. ... The "Cases" drive was actually a shared folder on an external ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: After manually undoing a recent MS Update, my server is a mess
    ... During the restore, the server rebooted without confirmation. ... The "Cases" drive was actually a shared folder on an external ... I mirrored the two drives ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: After manually undoing a recent MS Update, my server is a mess
    ... Before installing this server, my users were accustomed to storing all of ... The "Cases" drive was actually a shared folder on an external ... I mirrored the two drives ... Connection-specific DNS Suffix. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: After manually undoing a recent MS Update, my server is a mess
    ... Before installing this server, my users were accustomed to storing all of their files on what they call the "Cases" drive. ... Wrong...Windows XP didn't have the necessary drivers to mount the broken half-mirror dynamic drive and I was told that because the server was 64 bit, the 32 bit drivers probably wouldn't even help. ... Connection-specific DNS Suffix. ... I asked him how it could get 3/4 of the way through the boot process, obviously reading files from the drives, before BSOD and he suggested that perhaps a patch was incompatible with my hardware. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
Loading