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First think : MDF and LDF separate on raid 1 Second think : All in one raid5.

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ou don't need a seperate raid for the LDF, if your database is rarely updated. All other suggestions would depend on your data and usage, but you don't provide any informations. – edze Nov 23 '12 at 8:35
Could you elaborate on your question a bit? One can guess what you want to ask here, but I'm sure you'd get better answers to a better question. A bit of information about your disk array would be useful for sure. Knowing the typical load of it is often handy. – dezso Nov 23 '12 at 9:21
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read/write ratio? Size of data/RAM ratio? OLTP, DW or BI workload type? Frequency and size of writes? Any secondary log reading workload (replication, DBM)? – Remus Rusanu Nov 23 '12 at 9:53

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Depends on what it is be used for really. For lots of writes I would look at raid 1 or 10 not raid 5 which would be used for lots reads (reporting). Unless you have a relatively new SAN then 5 would be ok due to better caching.

A different Physical disc for data and log files if you can. ALWAYS keep backups on a different disk to the data files this should be RAID 5.

As much Ram as you can get.

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