I recommend you with the followings: 1 - Use Windows 2K Advanced server with service pack 2 2 - Use the active directory to create the mailboxes 3 - Use Exchange 2000 with service pack 2 4 - Use the RAID5 and you know you have to have at least 3 hard drives. 5 - Use the storage group method Regards, Ammer -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:AndreaCoppini@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:53 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: RAID 5 http://www.MSExchange.org/ We use Exch 5.5 on WinNT on a SCSI RAID5 set. No major performance issues. E-mail is used heavily, but we only have 50 mailboxes Regards Andrea -----Original Message----- From: Saud [mailto:saud@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 17 May 2002 6:44 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RAID 5 http://www.MSExchange.org/ We are planning to change our current server with a brand new dual processor Dell server with 1 ghz Ram and three Hard Drives that will be setup as RAID 5. I have read about RAID 5 that it's proper for systems where the performance is not of importance and with few read operations. Anyone has any idea if it's gonna be appropriate for Win2k and Exchange2k ? Any info would be appreciated. Saud ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: andreacoppini@xxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: ammer.selham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')