which is Best way to implement SBS 2003 (RAID issues)

I'm having a hard time using raid 10

my current partions are C:OS Drofile Eate F:Scanner running on raid10.
However, everytime there is a failure in the raid10 my OS is messed up.
I'm planning to do is this way

RAID 1 on C (hardware raid) 200gb (2 HD)
RAID 0 on D, E, F (hardware raid) 400gb (2 HD each 200gb)
JBOB 500GB to do microsoft software mirror of D, E, F
Daily or twice a day NTbackup on C

Any suggestions?

 

IMO having 4 200gb drives to yield 600gb of storage, you should just make
them all a RAID 5. Much less complex, and it seems like you're a lot less
likely to have a failure in the first place. You need all those backups
because your RAID 0 has no redundancy, and that issue is solved with a RAID
5 as well. I'd just make the last drive a hot spare for an extra layer of
redundancy and do one backup per day.

IMO all of these ultra-performance configurations don't make any perceptible
difference to the users in our SBS-sized networks. Also IMO, the added
failover protection of a RAID 5 with hot spare should eliminate enough
restores and other aggravation to more than mitigate any minor performance
you lose with that configuration.

 

I sure like the looks of all that disk space, but can't afford it with scsi
and haven't got the guts to go sata ;-).

 

well I tried raid 5 with promise SX4300 and it is very unreliable. I got all
my HD dropped due to one that is corrupted.

So noone actually uses raid 1 for OS drive? I'm currently using LSI 1506
SATA controller which allows 0/1/10/5/50. However, I find that if they are in
the same array, it is a nightmare to fix it.

 

.... why don't you go with sata? is there more change of getting corruption?
I'm having a lot of corruption lately. To be honest I hate raid 10 but most
sata raid with PCX do not offer 0+1 anymore

 

It turns out the raid enclosure was the problem. I guess I learned the lesson
"NEVER buy a enclosure that has temperature monitoring or fan control" nor
cheap ones. It must be fairly simple and not fancy features.