You wouldnt notice any difference.RAID10 is not cost effective, but if you end up having 10 computers using the server at the same time, the spindle speed will help get the data in/out faster.
Lets see what Fatty and KDF suggest too then I think I havent missed anything? If I have PLEASE put me straight lol
get a 12 or 24 port switch (unmanaged gigabit). Used RAID type 10 (I prefer 1+0, some people say a few RAID controllers work better with 0+1 but I am yet to see that). RAID for this purpose would be internal (inside the server). Use external USB HDD's for backup using a simple backup app like fBackup or the built in backup app. setup AD and map user folders to folders on the server.
RAID 10 is not required.
RAID10 is not cost effective, but if you end up having 10 computers using the server at the same time, the spindle speed will help get the data in/out faster. You said money was not a problem, so I would go with RAID10.
Take it as it will be one hell of a farce if not impossible to upgrade from RAID 1 to 10
Nick
Yep, since NT 3.51How many people that have posted in here actually work with servers day in day out? And I don't mean just look at them or swap a backup tape.
(and not cookie as he is scared to turn them on and off)
How many people that have posted in here actually work with servers day in day out? And I don't mean just look at them or swap a backup tape.
(and not cookie as he is scared to turn them on and off)
This thread is amazing. Best read on cs tech forum in ages.
Oh lawd.
Agreed. Only popped back in for a quick check to see how we are progressing and WOW! 13 pages already
What a journey. Chapster5, your head must be hurting by now surely?
How many people that have posted in here actually work with servers day in day out? And I don't mean just look at them or swap a backup tape.
(and not cookie as he is scared to turn them on and off)
Ok so kdf seems to know what he's talking about, although migrating from raid 1 to 10 is fairly straightforward, as most hp raid controllers treat 2 disks as a 2 disk raid 10 in effect, add two drives and it becomes a raid 10 automatically as its just mirroring with more drives.
If you setup Active Directory then you will need to setup DNS in the process.
Switch will not act as a DHCP.
Actually the router would do the DHCP wouldnt it,
Would I assign a static IP in the router for the server?
Nick
Unless it's layer 3.
Yes, daily.. including purchasing, bare metal rebuilds, virtualization, consolidation blah blah etc.
I don't know HP kit (which I previously freely admitted.) The last time I did something similar I just build a new array and migrated the data across. The HP solution sounds painless.
Unless it's layer 3.
For something your size you shouldn't need anymore than 254 address's, so set your subnet to 255.255.255.0 on your DHCP server. Then set your DHCP range x.x.x.50-150 (make sure you use a private address range) keep 1-49 for servers and 151+ for network peripherals such as routers and printers etc.
Let's not complicate things
Yes, daily.. including purchasing, bare metal rebuilds, virtualization, consolidation blah blah etc.
I don't know HP kit (which I previously freely admitted.) The last time I did something similar I just build a new array and migrated the data across. The HP solution sounds painless.
Unless it's layer 3.
For something your size you shouldn't need anymore than 254 address's, so set your subnet to 255.255.255.0 on your DHCP server. Then set your DHCP range x.x.x.50-150 (make sure you use a private address range) keep 1-49 for servers and 151+ for network peripherals such as routers and printers etc.
Anyone considered a Token Ring setup yet?
Lol! Guess I need to stop taking everyone so serious in here I'm believing what I'm reading because you all know more than I do
As for the license thing is a necessary thing to do?
Also why do servers have 2 PSUs is it incase one fails?
Nick
It's for exactly that reason, or if one power feed fails, or whatever. Just provides redundancy.