I would seriously consider 2 Raid 10 arrays, giving you 2 fast, secure 1 TB drives?
Regards, Hank Arnold “THERE IS NO CLOUD – It’s just someone else’s computer!” My Blog: http://blogs.msmvps.com/hankshelp/ Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, September 16, 2016 11:04 AM To: ntsysadm <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] raid 5? in 2016 8 x 500gb = 4tb, raw. RAID5 = 3.5 raw RAID6 or RAID5 + hot spare = 3tb raw Space dwindles quickly when reserving disks for failover/availability. How many VMs? What apps running on them? It's certainly going to be a screaming machine, regardless - depending on type and how many procs are in it, though I'd consider upping the RAM to 128. Does it have a 10gb NIC? If the infrastructure supports it, I'd strongly consider that. Kurt On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:10 AM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > So I inherited this server , (sitting on site since February) low and > behold when I fire it up it turns out that whoever set it up used all > 8 discs in a raid 5 (granted they are only 500gb enterprise ssd's ) > but still raid 5? and no hot spare? > > > I'm trying to figure what the purpose of this server is/was, but aside > from a losing some space wouldn't a raid 6 and hot spare make MUCH more > sense? > > > I'd like to move some of their VMs to it, as it is a brand spanking > new r730 with 96gb of ram > > > > > >
