Which Raid?

sulmau · Post by **sulmau** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:44 am

Hi,

I'm running a machine in my company for e-mail ( mdaemon server ) & database ( Lotus Approach ) & need to know which raid level will be suiteable in the condition?

Can't use raid at hardware level so it means that can use raid using multiple hard disk drives & configure via OS.

Using win2000 server in this case.

If need any further info, then pls let me know.

Awaiting some good guideness / reply.

Regards / Sulman

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:40 am

TinyTim · Post by **TinyTim** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:36 pm

Sid wrote:5

cyberskye · Post by **cyberskye** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:48 pm

Hope you have heavy cpu power - sw RAID5 is 'expensive' in terms of CPU overhead - you have to do a lot of extra math to read or write. This is meant to be a database server....make sure you do some performance/load benchmarking before throwing this into production.

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:52 pm

Sid wrote:5