It doesn’t sound like you have priced IDE vs. SCSI drives in a while. The steps that I have been talking about taking here are for two reasons: 1) for preventative measures (the current windows install is on it’s last legs and some of the drives are getting old) and 2) for cost issues (now and...
David, the answer to most of your questions is cost. We are on a low budget. We want to get away from SCSI because of the cost and headache. A second DC is not an option for this network. The server I built has built in IDE RAID hardware and I plan to buy two IDE drives and mirror them.
Zoe, I do not have another box to work with. It's kind of a long story but my original Compaq Proliant server failed on me (motherboard problem). I built a new server about a month ago and got the original W2K install to work with my new server (not an easy task, but I needed to get it going...
OK, here is the deal. I am working with a very small network that has only one Windows 2000 server (DC). It is running Active Directory. The server currently has multiple SCSI drives. The drives have been added as necessary for more space but the drives are not RAIDed.
I would like to...
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