Another reason to have at least one spare: If you buy good quality equipment (insert your favorite vendor here) it will probably run for quite a while before the first disk failure. By that time the x gig hot swap disk you need won't be available 'cuz the industry is now selling 20x as the standard! Especially if you are under financial constraints that make you use hardware for more than 5 years....
I wouldn't advise having an online spare, but that's open to discussion. Tom Gray, Network Engineer All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT&T Net: (919)960-8888 -----Original Message----- From: Richard Leslie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:21 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Need advice about an exchange HD setup It doesnt matter how many you have in the set: if you lose more than one at a time, you lose them all. The answer: always have an extra drive. As soon as you lose one, swap it out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Wesoloski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 5:05 PM Subject: RE: Need advice about an exchange HD setup > The only problem I see with using three drives is boy does it suck when one > goes down and your trying to get another one hoping one of the other twodo > not go down. Trust me it sucks. I had one go down and before I could get > another one one of the other two went down. Now I will never have just > three. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:02 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Need advice about an exchange HD setup > > > I forgot to mention that I have about 250 mailboxes and my store is about 10 > gigs...so I don't see a issue with using 3 18 gigs raid5 for the store.... > > Thank You, > Robert Williams > Senior Network Administrator > Raypak, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone - 805-278-5363 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:53 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Need advice about an exchange HD setup > > > Bill, this box only holds 5 drives....I have to work with what I got.... I > will check the faq.... > > Thank You, > Robert Williams > Senior Network Administrator > Raypak, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone - 805-278-5363 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mellott, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:50 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Need advice about an exchange HD setup > > > Me... I'd add a 4th HD to the raid 5 for Online Spare. > > there's also a bit in the FAQ about optimum HD config for exch55. I think it > mentions a mirrored pair also just for the log's. > > bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:31 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Need advice about an exchange HD setup > > > I am moving my 5.5 server to a new box soon. > It is a Dell 2550 with 1.2 gigs ram and 5 18gig 10k SCSI drives with 128Meg > Raid I am planning to use the first 2 drives mirrored for the OS and the > other 3 for a raid 5 stripe for exchange.... If this is or is not a good > setup, then any advice would be appreciated. > > Thank You, > Robert Williams > Senior Network Administrator > Raypak, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone - 805-278-5363 > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
