Thank you for the reply. I understand from a data protection standpoint, but in the exchange point of view is the dual raid 5 what is going to perform best?

Thanks,

Jim

I've a question about best practices for exchange. I'm building a new san with an HP MSA array behind a server. It has 9 drives plus one for hotspare. Typically you'll read that the database should be on a raid 5 array because of the random read/writes and the logs on a mirror for the sequential ope...