Re: Hard Drive configuration

RAID 1 is Mirroring (Duplexing if on 2 separate controllers)

Hot swap is down to the Hardware you are looking at, Mainly a SCSI user for
servers and these Can be Hotswap if the Drive and controllers support it.

>From the drive sizes you are mentioning I suspect you are referring to IDE
type drives (SATA are also a newer form of the IDE Standard)

SCSI for that size would be incredibly expensive, BUT reliable and fast
sequential access.

Other than that your theory should work out fine
TT

"John [MSFT]" <jstraumann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi all:
>
> I am a software hack, not a sys admin, and I've been asked to help out on
> an SBS install. It's for my cousin who is a doctor and wants to store
> large volumens of scnned data, and he needs some kind of redundancy so if
> a drive dies he doesn't have to shut down to fix it.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good hard drive configuration which would include
> some sort of RAID (RAID 0 is mirrors, correct)? I was thinking of an
> 80-120 GB mirrored system drive for the OS and applications, and then 2 -
> 300 GB data drives set up as mirrors, which should be 300 GB of storage
> correct?
>
> Can Mirrored dries be hot swapped in teh case of a drive failure?
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
>
> John.
>
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