Best RAID and Cluster Size for a Small Server
Mark Berry July 8, 2010
What’s the best disk setup on a small business server?
I recently got to play around with some options as I set up a Hyper-V host on a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with a PERC 5/i RAID controller. Here are some things I learned along the way.
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Tags: allocation unit, cluster, partition alignment, raid, sql | Posted under IT Administration | 10 Comments
Excuse Me, Your SCSI Is Slipping
Mark Berry June 29, 2007
So you’ve got a hot-swap SCSI RAID array and you figure you are covered, even if a disk fails. Well, that is usually true. Kinda. Here is a long story with a few short conclusions about what to do when SCSI drives start failing.
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