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I've been 'specing' up for a new SIMS server to support Windows Server\SQL 2008. I was thinking RAID 1 for logs\OS and RAID 10 (6 x 72GB drives in my case), but I have been told I might as well put all 6 in one single RAID 10 with 2 logical partitions. I hadn't considered this as everywhere seems to suggest 2 different RAIDs to separate logs and database, can you advise!?

Nobody's mentioned what Backup device they suggest? I went for the HP Internal half-height LTO-3 SAS tape drive in my ML350 G5 data server but it is pricey £900 or so. I'm considering a ML350 G6 for move to Windows 2008 and Sims SQL2008 so wondering if another Ultrium backup device would be the best for that too?? What do people think?

But to state the obvious the Veriton's not the same acer nettop as the AspireRevo - in that it doesn't have the NVIDIA ION chipset. We spent a deal of time finding Windows XP driver to make the AspireREvo work, but now that we have it works great but it IS a shame it's not an option out of the book for those who don't have a working XP image.

We have use nlite to build a cut-down windows XP Pro install on the NC10 and it works great! We used the Slimming Down Windows XP Professional Using nLite [EeeUser Eee PC Wiki] guide as our starting point. We needed make sure we had an XP Pro license and downloaded the np-nc10 drivers from samsung website first of course Slimming Down Windows XP Professional Using nLite [EeeUser Eee PC Wiki]

So I can afford 4 300GB drives in my config but will be using only the E200i controller 128Mb cache, so final question: 2 300GB pairs RAID 1 or 3 300GB drives in a RAID 5 what do you think?

extra feature is that it supports 15K SAS SFF hot-plug drives, without it limited to 10K ones, now how much of a difference would that make to performance on file and print RAID 1, given the larger cache too? "far end of a fart"!

would the HP ML350 G5's inbuilt smart array E200i with 128MB BBWC class as a proper one due to the cache? the £200 additional smart array P400SAS controller has a larger 258MB cache so would this desireable?

surely the best performance to cost scenario would be to have 2 pairs of 300GB disks mirrored RAID 1 4x£300=£1200 rather than 3 300GB disks RAID 5 and an array controller 3x£300+£200=£1100 ???

Thanks everyone picking up on a couple of points: It would be our main solution, planning to move from our LTO1 as they'll not be big enough soon. OverWorked: do you use memeo to keep track of changes in real time? or just have scheduled disk to disk copies overnight? Interested in the debate over RAID 1/10 vs. 5 Due to quotas there's currently just over 130Gb to backup (archives will reduce it to nearer 100MB) just assumed I could get 2 more 300Gb drives next year... I guess 5 is necessary if I want more storage space NOW (matt40k: I've no time or inclinationto build a server how much money that it saves me!) or I could scrap idea tape backups and get just a terrastation hmmm (like having data offsite tho).

I have £3K approx to buy a Fileserver to which I want to move all the student home and shared areas to (and possibly staff ones too) and perhaps networked software such as Kudos, Edexcel, Eduteams I was thinking along the lines of: HP's ML350 pedestal (no room for a server rack ) Intel Quad-core Xeon E5410 2.333GHz 4GB RAM 2x 72.8GB hot-swap 2.5" SAS 15K - OS/Progs RAID 1 2x 300GB hot-swap 2.5" SAS 15K - Data RAID 1 (+2 free slots) Raid controller SMART ARRAY controller + 256MB Cache LTO3 internal SAS backup with contoller Planning to buy some Backup Software BackupExec, ArcServe or backupassist... all advice welcome

I'm considering changing to an entirely new domain name for Curriculum rather than re-use the old Admin one (as I had earlier planned) in case there is some association on the old admin domain name after migrating it's users and data via ADMT? Rendom claims to handle the domain name change on worstation computers after a couple of reboots (I realise my admin domain computers will have to taken out of domain and added to the new one in any case) in any case.

leco: It's not an option to keep 2 seperate domains ajbritton/kiran:I am purchasing one new server to host all student and staff home directories, but don't want to have to create a brand new domain and migrate using ADMT) from both my admin and curriculum domains, surely this would be a longer process since I'd have to rejoin every domain pc to new domain too?! Having looked through options I think I will use ADMT to migrate curriculum user to new server. Then migrate AD and data from Admin domain to Curriculum domain. Then demote my admin dc and domain Then work on domain renaming of Curriculum Can you see this order of attack presenting any problems?

We have 2 2003 domains on 2 different ip ranges and physically speparated (different switches in same cabinets) each with an DSL connection, Admin through our CC and Curriculum through a local ISP (split in one 8MB router) Our CC is providing a single hugely improved broadband link through the local ISP (our Curriculum network). All high schools in CC are to get the link but we are unique in that our Admin network is very heavily used, 150+ PCs and every member of staff has an account. Because the broadband link comes into Curriculum and I built it (know it inside out and the Admin domain was the 1st 2003 domain built by county before I took the job and has "issues"!), my plan was to migrate all users and files shares from Admin into Curriculum. Do away with any non student user accounts on Curriculum and merge and data they had stored on either domain together. Issues: 1. the remaining single domain would named CURRICULUM, when I'd prefer it to be named after our school (as our admin domain is). 2. Staff would have to stop using current admin login details and use their Curriculum logins, which most of them have but only a few use. 3. Each member of teaching staff's laptops (provided to use for Lesson Monitor) would have to be reconfigured from Admin to Curriculum domain before start of school in sept. 4. some decision on what to do about shared H drived which exists on both domains (one for shared data for students and one for staff only) Having looked through technet resources and threads here I wonder if I am thinking about it the right way. Could I keep the Curriculum domain but change it's name to that of the Admin domain thus saving a lot of work educating users and reconfiguring staff laptops (and admin workstations)? If so in what order should I do it: start by renaming Curriculum domain, then use Migration tool to move users or the other way around? Any advice much appreciated

Living in Newcastle working in Northumberland - Ashington High School