I’ve been accumulating points here on TechRepublic and didn’t really notice, so I may as well spend some. . .
Currently, we have a 4.3GB SCSI drive that’s getting pretty full. I originally wanted to get a 9GB drive with its own controller, but it turns out that my local shop will give me a 9GB drive for about the same price (~$240) as a controller. So my latest brainstorm is to get two 9GB drives, mirror them, and use the old 4.3 GB drive (formatted FAT) for system and program files. Our no. 1 goal is to increase capacity on the server, and my secondary goal is to provide some fault tolerance.
Here’s a plan I came up with — have I left anything out, or will I to run into any problems? Any comments on how best to arrange these drives will be appreciated.
1. Take down server and install two SCSI hard drives
2. Fire up machine as usual. Go to Disk Administrator, format new drives as NTFS, assign drive letters of F: and G: 3.
3. ImageCopy (using trial version) C: toF:
4. Rewrite boot.
