The version of Exchange you're building is fairly important here.... I would avoid RAID 5 for logs. If performance is of any concern*, the write penalty with RAID 5 would be disadventageous. Use RAID 1 or 10. Although RAID 1/10 is generally recommended for DBs, RAID 5 can adequately support smaller environments.
*considering the OPs usual config, it likely isn't, but I digress. - Sean On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Kat Aylward <[email protected]> wrote: > Long ago, I believe the recommendations were: > > C:\ = raid 1 - OS - can share physical drives with D: > D:\ = raid 1 - Misc - can share physical drives with C: > E:\ = raid 5 or 10 - Exchange DBs - separate physical drives not same as F: > F:\ = raid 5 or 10 - Exchange logs - separate physical drives not same as > E: > > Not sure of current recommendations are tho > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Jeff Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We build all ours raid1 system drive(not so big) and raid1 data drive(big) >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Holstrom, Don <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am about to build a new server, but I have always used static drives. >>> We have about a hundred users. >>> >> >> > > > -- > Kat Aylward - > > "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift - that's > why they call it the present." > > "The Email of the species is more powerful than the Mail!" > >
