Re: Disk Space for new server?
- From: "Rick F" <rick.REMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 01:34:02 -0500
Odd that no one answered your real question, hard drive size. With 35 user,
I would go SCSI and a split backplane as Henry suggested would be ideal.
If you can split the backplane then I would purchase this:
2 - 36GB for the OS (RAID 1)
4 - 72GB for the Data (RAID 5)
That's going to give you 200GB of user space to work with. You never really
spoke about what kind of files your environment will be using. If you were a
graphic design company and always working on big graphic files, then I would
go with 146GB drives for data, giving you twice as much space.
As far as Exchange, the 16GB limit is still there. It would be great if MS
would increase that limit but it has been that way since Exchange
4.0...almost 10yrs...wake up Microsoft!
--
Rick Faria - MCSE / A+
RDF Technical Services - www.rdfts.com
Email: support at rdfts dot com
"Henry Craven [SBS-MVP]" <IUnknown@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u42tB5vTFHA.3152@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Melbourne SBS Users Group
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/melb-SBSusers/
>
>
> "Chuck" <Chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:D0A89632-1D88-47E8-ADC1-764474FCC13A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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