Guys I see your point I have several none sharepoint apps that use db mirroring and I have the native client installed on the box so the app is mirroring...

Ok do you use NLB with the mirroring if not the only way you can reconnect sharepoint during a failure is through the use of a sql server alias. I...

I want to use it purely as a failover mechanism not for load balancing I understand that the mirror server will be out of the rotation until I fail over....

PiMané can you clarify your layout let me go through what I have one more time.

My main server has 6 local sas drives that are 146gig 15k rpm I than...

Lucky thanks for the reply I was leaning strongly towards the raid 10 simply because of the reasons you just stated

Look at the below link looks like he separated his replication

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/629907/how-to-set-network-adapter-used-by-sql-server-replication