Re: BOOTING WITH A RAID 5

Jeff Binkley ( jeff.binkley@asacomp.com )
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 08:38:00 -0500

-> Put all of your important apps on the raid 5 drives and don't worry about
-> any fault tolerance on the boot drive. If the boot drive dies, all you have
-> to do is put NT back on and all of your data is data is safe on the RAID 5
-> drives. Backing up the boot drive to tape should be sufficient.
-> That is the way all of our NT servers are setup.

Or do as I often do, use a small boot drive, say 1 gig and then put a second
drive in of the same size and mirror it. We've done that on most of our large
NT database servers which have 40+ Gig RAID arrays on them.

Jeff Binkley
ASA Network Computing