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sbs 2011 with 2 SATA drives in IDE mode
I need to deploy an SBS 2011 server for a small LAN. 3 users running windows 7 Pro.
They will be running exchange and multiuser tabs3 software
Will two 500G 7200rpm drives ( drive 1 for the OS and drive 2 for data) running in standard IDE mode provide acceptable performance or should I still consider a RAID setup.
Will be using a XEON E-1220 cpu and 16G RAM
They will be running exchange and multiuser tabs3 software
Will two 500G 7200rpm drives ( drive 1 for the OS and drive 2 for data) running in standard IDE mode provide acceptable performance or should I still consider a RAID setup.
Will be using a XEON E-1220 cpu and 16G RAM
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Virtually every MOBO today, and in particular one that supports a XEON CPU, will have native SATA built in. In the BIOS, the choices are a bit of a misnomer in terms of how the SATA controller is configured. That doesn't mean the MOBO doesn't have native SATA support. The question is whether RAID or IDE ( separate drives / SATA).
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MrC63 indicated that performance will be fine but Just to restate the question. I will be using the on-board SATA controller of the motherboard. The motherboard Bios mode choices for the on-board SATA are IDE, AHCI, or RAID. I want to use IDE mode. One SATA drive will be for the o.s. - SBS 2011, the second drive strictly for data.
I was wondering if anyone has tried that drive configuration with SBS 2011. Would it provide acceptable performance for a 3 user LAN. The users will all be running exchange and tabs3 multiuser software
Will be using a XEON E-1220 cpu and 16G RAM
I was wondering if anyone has tried that drive configuration with SBS 2011. Would it provide acceptable performance for a 3 user LAN. The users will all be running exchange and tabs3 multiuser software
Will be using a XEON E-1220 cpu and 16G RAM
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IDE mode prevents the HDD from using the higher-speed DMA. You loose queued I/Os which means no reordering of I/O requests in the HDD. You lose ability for higher efficiency I/O commands that can read/write 32KB or more at a time (this varies).
For a $20 native SATA controller, you can also mirror the disks with software. SBS will do read-load balancing so in perfect world you get twice the read performance in a RAID1 than if you had a single disk. (PLus you get all that data protection)