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Originally Posted by boneprone
However the three server system is on some older several year old P4's.. With the power of the new Quads and 4 gigs of Ram im thinking I can put it it all on one server and just get 3 hds..
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All the rest of it aside, and whoever you go with, this is wrong to do.
Given the stuff in your previous thread about how your programmer doesn't like RAID for some reason, I'm guessing that's coming from him?
Unless you ask yourself the question "If this server were to completely go offline right now, and wasn't back up for 3, 4, or maybe even 12 hours, would I care at all?" and answer it with "Of course I wouldn't care", then you need RAID, and RAID 0 doesn't count.
Disk are the most common part on a server to fail, and the part most likely to cause extended downtime if it does. For new servers, there's very strong options out there for hardware RAID, there's no reason to not use it anymore.
I don't have a dog in this race, but whatever you end up going with, make RAID a necessity, particularly if you're putting everything on one server.