You work as a PC technician for a local insurance company and your boss believes you are really bright and can solve just about any problem he throws at you. Employees in the company have complained one too many times that the file server downtime is hurting their jobs and productivity. Your boss wants you to figure out what hardware is needed to implement hardware RAID for fault tolerance. You check the file server's configuration and discover it has a single hard drive using a SATA connection with Windows Server 2012 installed. There are four empty bays in the computer case and four extra SATA power cords. You also discover an empty PCIe x 4 slot on the motherboard. BIOs setup does not have a built in RAID option. Research what RAID is and what it does if you do not remember what was covered in TestOut. Write at least 2 paragraphs about RAID and it's different functions. Decide what will need to be purchased and provide links to the items that must be purchased to make this solution work. What levels of RAID are supported? Which RAID level is best to use for speed and redundancy? Why? Be sure to explain your reasoning. What is the total cost for implementing this solution? Estimate how much time you believe it may take to setup this solution.

Database System Concepts

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ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

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You work as a PC technician for a local insurance company and your boss believes you are really bright and can solve just about any problem he throws at you. Employees in the company have complained one too many times that the file server downtime is hurting their jobs and productivity. Your boss wants you to figure out what hardware is needed to implement hardware RAID for fault tolerance. You check the file server's configuration and discover it has a single hard drive using a SATA connection with Windows Server 2012 installed. There are four empty bays in the computer case and four extra SATA power cords. You also discover an empty PCIe x 4 slot on the motherboard. BIOs setup does not have a built in RAID option. Research what RAID is and what it does if you do not remember what was covered in TestOut. Write at least 2 paragraphs about RAID and it's different functions. Decide what will need to be purchased and provide links to the items that must be purchased to make this solution work. What levels of RAID are supported? Which RAID level is best to use for speed and redundancy? Why? Be sure to explain your reasoning. What is the total cost for implementing this solution? Estimate how much time you believe it may take to setup this solution.

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