debbiestreasurebox
Joined: 16 Mar 2006
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Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject:
Tips on setting up raid drives for new SBS 2003 install |
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New to the board and forgive me if I posted this in the wrong topic/category here.
Just got in our new server which had no operating system setup on it. I wanted to get some advice on the configuration setup I should go with. Here is my server layout. Somewhat of a newbie on server setup but have a pretty good knowledge of computers.
Dual 2.4 Zeons, Intel SE7500CW2 motherboard, 2 gigs of memory, 4U Case, 1 Buslink PCI-2S raid controller, 1 Highpoint 1820a raid controller, 2 WD400 (37gig) SATA hard drives, 4 WD2500 (250gig) SATA drives.
My initial idea was to have my Small Business Server 2003 Premium install on the 2 WD400 drives and have it in Raid 1. Then to have my WD2500 drives in Raid 5 for all our network data. Is this a good choice to go with? Are there any other considerations that I should look at?
My biggest question I have here, is how I should go about setting this all up. Should I just configure all the raids in the bios setup first and should I do both controllers in bios. Or, should I just configure the OS portion of the controller, and then configure the raid 5 via the software I have for the Highpoint Controller. I am just looking for some kind of step-by-step guide in going through the whole server OS install with two types of controllers I have. Basically the best way to go about in getting my system all setup for a working server. Any or all suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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