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if you want the best performance RAID 10.
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if you want the best performance RAID 10.

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How many drives does raid 10 require?<br />

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I'm thinking about 6 HDs. If I wanted to add more can I do it later down the road. <br />
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What about for a file server? Raid 5 or 10<br />

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I'm thinking about 6 HDs. If I wanted to add more can I do it later down the road.

What about for a file server? Raid 5 or 10


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I appreciate the advice. I will take this into consideration when creating the virtual disks. Thanks
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I appreciate the advice. I will take this into consideration when creating the virtual disks. Thanks

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No problems, any other questions, please just post.<br />
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Good Luck.
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No problems, any other questions, please just post.

Good Luck.

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We recently purchased an MD1000 to add to our MD3000.<br />
I am trying to find out what is the best way to utilize I/O on the MD 1000.<br />
When creating my virtual disks is RAID 10 better than RAID 5.<br />
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We have (4) ESX host connected to the SAN. We are planning to virtualize our Exchange server, File Server and a Oracle Server? What RAID solution would be best for all these servers?
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We recently purchased an MD1000 to add to our MD3000.
I am trying to find out what is the best way to utilize I/O on the MD 1000.
When creating my virtual disks is RAID 10 better than RAID 5.

We have (4) ESX host connected to the SAN. We are planning to virtualize our Exchange server, File Server and a Oracle Server? What RAID solution would be best for all these servers?

Dell MD1000 best practices

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