[THIN] Re: Raid setups for citrix servers?

Most deployments (Hardware based) are a simple Mirrored Raid 1 set... Some
organizations have a habit of always ordering 5 disks and having a Mirrored
Raid 1 set for the OS and Raid 5 for the Data. But if a customer ends up
with 6 drives I will push RAID 0+1 (or RAID 10 on the Dells). You'll get
wicked performance with that. Noticeable over a similar RAID 5
configuration.

A couple other things to keep in mind. A hot spare on a TS is overkill. A
separate Data volume on a TS is simply not necessary. There shouldn't be
any data on it.

My advice? Skip the 5-6 15k drives and spend that money on a couple of SSD
drives instead.

Joe

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Subject: [THIN] Raid setups for citrix servers?

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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