2003R2 Enterprise Minimum C:Drive Size Question

[Guest EDAWG]

Due to some technical/political issues at my work I am being forced to

install 2003 R2 on an IBM blade configuration(HS21) that doesn't come with

hot swappable drives. In an effort to minimize the impact of losing a drive

I am considering going with solid state drives, as they are billed as 3X more

reliable. My question is this...The max drive size for solid state on the

blades right now is 16GB. I can get two and set them up as RAID1, but I am

nervous about total drive space. The apps and its data will live no a SAN so

I am only installing the OS, but do you think this is cutting it too close

with space? My other option is to use 73GB SAS non hot swappable and live

with the more likely possiblity of losing a drive, but not running out of

space. I would appreciate your thoughts.

[Guest Jabez Gan [MVP]]

Re: 2003R2 Enterprise Minimum C:Drive Size Question

 

What is the server roles that you are going to setup on this server?

 

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Jabez Gan

Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - File Storage

"EDAWG" <EDAWG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Due to some technical/political issues at my work I am being forced to

> install 2003 R2 on an IBM blade configuration(HS21) that doesn't come with

> hot swappable drives. In an effort to minimize the impact of losing a

> drive

> I am considering going with solid state drives, as they are billed as 3X

> more

> reliable. My question is this...The max drive size for solid state on the

> blades right now is 16GB. I can get two and set them up as RAID1, but I

> am

> nervous about total drive space. The apps and its data will live no a SAN

> so

> I am only installing the OS, but do you think this is cutting it too close

> with space? My other option is to use 73GB SAS non hot swappable and live

> with the more likely possiblity of losing a drive, but not running out of

> space. I would appreciate your thoughts.

[Guest EDAWG]

Re: 2003R2 Enterprise Minimum C:Drive Size Question

 

Servers will be database servers with HBA's connecting to a SAN. All I need

on the solid state drives is the OS.

Thanks,

Erik

 

"Jabez Gan [MVP]" wrote:

> What is the server roles that you are going to setup on this server?

>

> --

> Jabez Gan

> Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - File Storage

> "EDAWG" <EDAWG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:02D8E845-0A3A-4439-AC07-37EEBCDFFDBC@microsoft.com...

> > Due to some technical/political issues at my work I am being forced to

> > install 2003 R2 on an IBM blade configuration(HS21) that doesn't come with

> > hot swappable drives. In an effort to minimize the impact of losing a

> > drive

> > I am considering going with solid state drives, as they are billed as 3X

> > more

> > reliable. My question is this...The max drive size for solid state on the

> > blades right now is 16GB. I can get two and set them up as RAID1, but I

> > am

> > nervous about total drive space. The apps and its data will live no a SAN

> > so

> > I am only installing the OS, but do you think this is cutting it too close

> > with space? My other option is to use 73GB SAS non hot swappable and live

> > with the more likely possiblity of losing a drive, but not running out of

> > space. I would appreciate your thoughts.

>