YeOldeStonecat
[H]F Junkie
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Not enough coffee to make up my mind this morning...
SBS Premium server....hosting e-mail for 20 users, storage for 6-8 people in the local office. I originally went with 6x of the 73 gig 2.5" 15k SAS drives...was going to RAID 1 the first 2 for the OS, RAID 5 the remaining for to give roughly 200 gigs of storage for the infostore and "stuff".
She comes back with "You think 200 gigs is enough? We plan on storing lots of pics 'n videos 'n stuff".
Dell rack mount PE 2950 III...she has 8x bays. Should I slap in anutter 2 drives into the RAID 5 array? (more expensive..as the 74 gig 15k drives are 340 bucks each) Or....drop down to 4x of the 146 gig 10k drives and RAID 10 'em for almost 300 gigs.(saving money...as these drives are only 300 buck each)
Adding more 15k drives on RAID 5....
Yeah RAID 10 has better performance...so it should wash off the drop in spindle speed a bit.
The RAID 10 solution with the 4 drives leaves 2x drive bays empty..but AFAIK RAID 10 doesn't leave room to grow right?
SBS Premium server....hosting e-mail for 20 users, storage for 6-8 people in the local office. I originally went with 6x of the 73 gig 2.5" 15k SAS drives...was going to RAID 1 the first 2 for the OS, RAID 5 the remaining for to give roughly 200 gigs of storage for the infostore and "stuff".
She comes back with "You think 200 gigs is enough? We plan on storing lots of pics 'n videos 'n stuff".
Dell rack mount PE 2950 III...she has 8x bays. Should I slap in anutter 2 drives into the RAID 5 array? (more expensive..as the 74 gig 15k drives are 340 bucks each) Or....drop down to 4x of the 146 gig 10k drives and RAID 10 'em for almost 300 gigs.(saving money...as these drives are only 300 buck each)
Adding more 15k drives on RAID 5....
Yeah RAID 10 has better performance...so it should wash off the drop in spindle speed a bit.
The RAID 10 solution with the 4 drives leaves 2x drive bays empty..but AFAIK RAID 10 doesn't leave room to grow right?