Thanks for a very useful article!

Thanks - I think you're right on both suggestions. The backup is written to tape anyway so I don't need to protect that disk from a failure and yes it...

Thanks for your replies Jeff. I think you are basically agreeing then with my original disk layout. I agree with your comment about disk sizes being annoyingly large now -...

The SAN has other disks and also spares etc. The 10 disks I am talking about are available for dedicated use for this sql server.

I would certainly like to...

Yes that's correct. This is a production system and some form of redundancy is required.

I was just wondering if instead of the layout I suggested, would it be better to...