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Web Server Storage config. question

Chiefcrowe

Chiefcrowe

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hi,
I am speccing out a server to be used for a IIS front end to run Windows 2008 enterprise server.

What kind of hard drives do you think I should get on it? I'm debating between 7.2K and 10K or even 15K but i'm not sure if the speeds will make that much difference.
 
Depends on the usage patterns. For plain static pages it won't really make a difference, especially if you've got enough memory to cache the whole site.
 
Along with the above, it also depends how much data you need to store 🙂 There is a huge difference in seek times though between a 7.2k rpm drive array and a 15k one. Also note that there is a considerable heat/ power consumption delta between 3.5" and 2.5" drives. If you are doing a raid 5/6 setup, in a 1U case, a lot of times you want to run 2.5" drives just to have enough physical drives in the chassis (Raid 6 + hot spare is a minimum of 5 drives). I am sure this is a false belief, but I believe that the hard drive manufacturers must build/test the 10k/15k drives a bit better than other offerings... again that may be a totally unfounded belief, but it makes me feel a bit better running them.
 
Well, i want to make it last for a while so I will probably get more space than I need. I'm thinking minimum 300 GB.
This server will be a sharepoint server.

I also agree that the higher speed drives are more likely to be more stable.

Does anyone know if Dell offers the WD RE3 drives?
 
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