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Thanks for all the help experts, aneeshattingal &nbsp;thanks for the detailed answer and that link. That site looks like an excellent resource, I'll be perusing it for sure!
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Thanks for all the help experts, aneeshattingal  thanks for the detailed answer and that link. That site looks like an excellent resource, I'll be perusing it for sure!

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Currently we are in the process of putting together a new RAID array for our SQL Server data files. We have found some conflicting recommendations as to what RAID configuration to use for this database. We are not sure if we should go with RAID 5 or 10.<br />
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We are using a PERC 4 RAID card, with four 300GB SCSI drives. The server is a Dell<br />
PowerEdge 2800, with 4GB RAM, and two Intel Xeon processors @ ~ 3.0 GHz. <br />
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The database holds currently ~100 GB of data and is likely to double each year.<br />
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Thanks.<br />

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Currently we are in the process of putting together a new RAID array for our SQL Server data files. We have found some conflicting recommendations as to what RAID configuration to use for this database. We are not sure if we should go with RAID 5 or 10.

We are using a PERC 4 RAID card, with four 300GB SCSI drives. The server is a Dell
PowerEdge 2800, with 4GB RAM, and two Intel Xeon processors @ ~ 3.0 GHz. 

The database holds currently ~100 GB of data and is likely to double each year.

Thanks.


RAID 5 vs RAID 10 in drive array for SQL Server Database

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