Guest Diane Walker Posted April 3, 2008 Posted April 3, 2008 We have a server with 5 (72GB) hard drives. We want to install IIS on Windows 2003, R2 server. Would you recommend that we setup RAID 5 for performance? Thank you.
Guest Herb Martin Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 Re: IIS Server "Diane Walker" <ett9300@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:O8qQtNclIHA.6136@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > We have a server with 5 (72GB) hard drives. We want to install IIS on > Windows 2003, R2 server. Would you recommend that we setup RAID 5 for > performance? Thank you. If you have the drives to spare, and if you need the fault tolerance, and if the IIS is "write mostly" (as most are) then you might benefit from this improvement in (mostly) READ speed. If you have good backups (staged sites etc) then you might consider simple RAID 0/Stripe set if you don't need the fault tolerance.
Guest Diane Walker Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 Re: IIS Server Thanks very much. "Herb Martin" <news@learnquick.com> wrote in message news:uLgEhJhlIHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > "Diane Walker" <ett9300@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:O8qQtNclIHA.6136@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> We have a server with 5 (72GB) hard drives. We want to install IIS on >> Windows 2003, R2 server. Would you recommend that we setup RAID 5 for >> performance? Thank you. > > If you have the drives to spare, and if you need the fault tolerance, and > if > the IIS is "write mostly" (as most are) then you might benefit from this > improvement in (mostly) READ speed. > > If you have good backups (staged sites etc) then you might consider simple > RAID 0/Stripe set if you don't need the fault tolerance. > > >
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