QUESTION POSED ON: 09 May 2005
I am building an Exchange 2003 server for a migration and I'm trying to decide what hard drive configuration would be best, based on my hardware options.
I was going to run RAID 5, but then read that the system partition and/or page file should not be on RAID 5. Then I was going to put the system partition on one drive and use RAID 1 on the other two. The only problem with that is that I feel it's a waste to use a 160 GB drive for a system partition. The server would only be for about 50 light users. Could I run RAID 5? If not, what other options do I have that would let me use my drives efficiently? Here is what I have available:
P4 2.8 GHZ
2 GB RAM
3 160 GB SATA drives
SATA RAID controller
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