To add on to Brian's excellent response, what are your needs as it pertains to:
...Storage (current and anticipated growth) ...Workload (what kind of databases are these?) ...user concurrency ...budget * * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
