Deciding on configurations for SQL Servers
My new server has 3 x 146GB SAS 15k 3.5" HD, which came pre-configured as RAID 5, and 2x 73GB SAS 15k 3.5" HD, which came as RAID 1. Should I leave this configuration as is or should I change it?

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ASKED: July 31, 2008  6:10 PM
UPDATED: August 1, 2008  3:49 PM

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That's fairly standard- you'd put the OS on the raid 1 and the database on the raid 5. Ideally you'd have two raids for SQL- one for the data and one for the logs, but if you don't have the spindles for it, you don't have them.
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