Re: Disk Space for new server?
- From: "Henry Craven [SBS-MVP]" <IUnknown@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 20:04:52 +1000
The beauty of RAID 5 is that it's easily expandable.
Many small disks are faster than fewer large disks in RAID 5.
Given your heavy and growing use of storage I'd be looking to the
following.
A SATA Mirror for the O/S Page/Temp/Swap and Log files on a
hardware controller; possibly onboard. - Expand to RAID 1+0 if required.
Dual Backplane Hardware RAID controller with onboard Battery Backup
A RAID 5 Hot Swap 6 bay array with an initial 3 drives & Hot Spare.
When ready/required (load not full rack) move some of the data to a
second.
RAID 5 Hot Swap 6 bay array with an initial 3 drives & Hot Spare
(e.g. Exchange / Sharepoint on one, Databases and User folders on
another)
Depending upon where you are you may find that Gigabyte LAN NAS devices
are cost effective.
--
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
CI Information Technology
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Melbourne SBS Users Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/
"Chuck" <Chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the prcess of planning a new deployment of SBS 2k3 premium for
> my
> company and would appreciate feed back about hard disk size.
>
> Scenario is:
>
> 35 clients, heavy internet and email usage, want to redirect all my
> documents folders to a directory on the server. I'll be redirecting to
> other
> than the standard location so that I can bypass the 1 gb limit (these
> folders
> cuold easily exceed that). In addition there will be shared folders on
> the
> server for 3 different groups who will be storing project and other
> documents. All printers will be on seperate print servers so the SBS
> box will
> not have to deal with that. I will be using ISA for both firewall and
> caching. I also want to allow for expansion. I went to the SBS road
> show
> recently and one of the SBS managers indicated that the planned SBS2k3
> r2
> release may eliminate the 16gb limit on exchange folders which would
> mean
> more space needed for email storage, and of course there will be the
> sharepoint site with assorted documents stored there.
>
> I've pretty much got the hardware all figured out except for hard
> disks. I
> will be using a raid5 solution and my backup plan is to perfom a
> normal back
> up once a week and differentials daily. I want to back up to tape. I
> received
> some great advice about the tape device (dat vs dlp vs lto) and that
> choice
> will hinge on the hard drive size.
>
> I'd like to use SCSI drives but the larger drives are so expensive as
> to be
> cost prohibitive. Hence the question what size drives? Has anyone used
> SATA
> with success or will a smaller SCSI array be sufficient?
>
> If any one has any experience with an installation of this size I'd
> really
> appreciate some feedback.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Chuck Cox
.
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