What RAID level?

I am building a secondary web server for an organization
using a small 1u rack server and was wondering what RAID
level you would use. The server does not host the main
site. It is used to host departmental and personal
sites. I know RAID 1 will allow high redundancy while
RAID 5 will allow better utilization of disk space.
There are three 35GB which would create 70GB for RAID 5
and 35 for RAID 1. (I would drop a disk and insert the cd-
rom if I used RAID 1).

Thanks.
Luigi

It depends what's more important - RAID 5 has poor performance but will give
you more usable disk space. RAID 1 performs a lot better but you'll get less
space. I'd personally go with RAID 1, disks are cheap these days...

Jerry

"Luigi" <anonymous.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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 > I am building a secondary web server for an organization
 > using a small 1u rack server and was wondering what RAID
 > level you would use. The server does not host the main
 > site. It is used to host departmental and personal
 > sites. I know RAID 1 will allow high redundancy while
 > RAID 5 will allow better utilization of disk space.
 > There are three 35GB which would create 70GB for RAID 5
 > and 35 for RAID 1. (I would drop a disk and insert the cd-
 > rom if I used RAID 1).
 >
 > Thanks.
 > Luigi<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->