OMG, I love RAID 5 :)

[Mucman]

Our 1 month old MS SQL 2000 database server had a HD crash in it. It had a 3 drive RAID 5 array for all databases and transaction logs... the thing kept working like nothing happened 🙂 I guess the RAID card would dynamically generate the data that would be on the drive. Good old Dell support say someone will be at our office at 1AM to replace the dead drive!

I love seeing redunancy work 🙂

 

[joohang]

Nice. 😀

How's the performance?

 

[Mucman]

Good question 🙂 We've never benchmarked it..

Current config :

dual PIII 1.13GHz
1 Gig of RAM
2 x 18G OS + database backups RAID 1
3 x 18G database files, and transaction logs RAID 5
RAID card is one of the Dell PERC3 cards with 128M of RAM on em.

The majority of our clients say that they moved to us because of our fast SQL servers...

Our SQL7 server has about 160 databases on it, and last time I looked it's uptime was 90 days!

 

[etalns]

Originally posted by: Mucman
Good question 🙂 We've never benchmarked it..

Current config :

dual PIII 1.13GHz
1 Gig of RAM
2 x 18G OS + database backups RAID 1
3 x 18G database files, and transaction logs RAID 5
RAID card is one of the Dell PERC3 cards with 128M of RAM on em.

The majority of our clients say that they moved to us because of our fast SQL servers...

Our SQL7 server has about 160 databases on it, and last time I looked it's uptime was 90 days!

Goodness, that thing is a beauty 🙂

 

[Adul]

nice 🙂

 

[ChrisIsBored]

I'm spoiled building so many RAID 5 arrays... I don't get excited anymore unless i'm doing RAID 10's or 50's.... not a bad system though...

😀