This isn't about favorites, it's about workload requirements, business 
continuity requirements, and what solution will meet those and other 
requirements (e.g. cost).

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
[email protected]

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From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 3:49 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Favorite DB hard drive config?

Hi Folks,

I've been watching the various recent threads about RAID and disk 
configurations.  I've been burned several times on RAID 1 and RAID 5 configs.  
A drive fails, and so doe the entire array.  So much for RAID.

That said, I'm soon to build a new database server (SQL, Windows 2008).   There 
will be a number of large databases on the system (maybe 1T to start).  What 
are your suggestions?  I recall someone mentioned an IBM server that had some 
sort of "grid" disk redundancy and that sounded cool.

Just looking for your thoughts on this.  I usually by Dell but any vendor is 
fine.

Tom


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