I am somewhat new to raid 5. I am thinking of purchasing a PowerEdge 1800 with raid 5. If I only have 3 hard drives I will have disck stripping with parity? So if one drive fails I can swap out with a new drive? Will windows 2000 still be running if this happens. Should I get 4 drives? I guess any info you could tell me would be great.
TOTAL $1152.00
Module PowerEdge 1800
Intel® Xeon™ processor at 2.8GHz/1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB
FREE QUADRUPLE UPGRADE to 2GB DDR2 400MHz 2 Single Ranked DIMMs
Primary Controller FREE! CERC 6-Channel SATA RAID Controller
Onboard NIC
Hard Drive Configuration
Add-in SATA card RAID 5, Minimum 3 drives required
3Yr BRONZE Support, Next Business Day Onsite
Hard Drive's
3 - 40GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
TOTAL $1152.00
Module PowerEdge 1800
Intel® Xeon™ processor at 2.8GHz/1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB
FREE QUADRUPLE UPGRADE to 2GB DDR2 400MHz 2 Single Ranked DIMMs
Primary Controller FREE! CERC 6-Channel SATA RAID Controller
Onboard NIC
Hard Drive Configuration
Add-in SATA card RAID 5, Minimum 3 drives required
3Yr BRONZE Support, Next Business Day Onsite
Hard Drive's
3 - 40GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive