Advanced Server 2000 Reinstall

[1ITconsultant]

Plan to install to a RAID 5 array over five 10gb drives. What would be a partition sufficient to acommmodate all of the patches and files. Also plan to add a 160Gb IDE drive. What would be the best way to introducte fault tolerance for the OS? Much thanks for any guidance.

 

[itsp1965]

Usually you could mirror two drives as RAID 1 and the remaining three as RAID 5 (for data). This would give you a 10GB logical drive which is fine for an install of Win2K Advanced (althoug I would recommend moving the pagefile).
Hope this helps.

 

[markdmac]

I agree with the advice above. Use two of the dirves for the OS and the rest for your data. I would not use an IDE drive in a server, the disk actiivty will send it to an early grave. if you really want to use the IDE, use it for storing backups.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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