Florin Andrei wrote: > Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: >> >> Erm, how many spindles can you fit in that 1U? 4 is the most I've seen. > > Yup, 4 disks. 2 for OS, 2 for DB. RAID1 > Well then may I suggest using the motherboard provided disk connectors and then getting yourself a BBU NVRAM or DDR RAM board to use as an external journal? What kind of box is this? The motherboard may already come with a BBU write cache for all we know.