Your company has just installed a new storage area network, and you have been asked for the best RAID model to use for our databases. You need optimum speed and reliability. How should you configure these hard disks?

Your company has just installed a new storage area network, and you have been asked for the best RAID model to use for our databases. You need optimum speed and reliability. How should you configure these hard disks?


Answer – Configure the hard disks as two RAID-10 arrays for both data and logs.

(RAID 10 gives you optimum speed and reliability. If it is available, you should use it.)