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 -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jond Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 8:18 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 . ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: //www.freelists.org/list/thin Follow ThinList on Twitter http://twitter.com/thinlist Thin List discussion is now available in blog format at: http://thinmaillist.blogspot.com Thinlist MOBILE Feed http://thinlist.net/mobile ************************************************ ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: //www.freelists.org/list/thin Follow ThinList on Twitter http://twitter.com/thinlist Thin List discussion is now available in blog format at: http://thinmaillist.blogspot.com Thinlist MOBILE Feed http://thinlist.net/mobile ************************************************