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Old 07-17-2006, 07:19 PM
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You can never have enough RAM. Like Rick P said, software RAID is a no no. If you got a big access DB, go RAID 5 for best performance and make sure when you format it the have the correct offset when running diskpar.

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Originally Posted by rickp
Ok, DO NOT USE SOFTWARE RAID. Completely Lame and takes a big hit on proc performance. As for the server what do you plan to use it for? That should be part of the primary driver for spec'ing it out. RAID 1 is nice but your lose that second drive. I would recommend getting an adaptec RAID Card as you can add additional drives to your RAID 5 array on the fly and w/o rebuilding your array.

I'm a consultant in Microsoft technologies so I should be able to answer your most technical question so PM me if you have more. Cheers.

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