[THIN] Re: Raid setups for citrix servers?

Just a stripe for me. Build them for speed. Get redundancy from more
servers.

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On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:17 AM, jond <x@jond.com> wrote:

> I'm curious how everyone does raid on their citrix presentation boxes.
>
> I've always done them in a simple Raid 5 setup(with online spare) with
> 5-6 15,000rpm drives.
> It makes for a pretty smoking fast setup, but it's not the cheapest
> setup in the world.
> I just got a quote for the new box I'm building, and the drives cost
> almost as much as the server.
>
> Anyone doing anything like raid 1 on the OS and raid 5 on the data?
> Anything more exotic?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
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