Will you have a seperat drive(s) for the OS?  or is the OS going to be on one of the 5 drives?  Is the OS mirrored?  How big is your...

You really need to look at your needs and what you have to work with.  I have a RAID5 for my data and a RAID1 for my OS and a...

Sorry, I didn't realize I posted it in 2005 forum... Thanks for the info, I'll look into that.

Thanks for the response and the info on SQL 2005, but I'm using SQL 2000 and you really didn't tell me HOW I check for what I need.  Any clues...