Bert-
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my questions. I actually didn't realize SQL ate up that much ram, like I said we're running with 2gb now in the 2003 SBS box and it crawls. Looking at the resource monitor for it, the RAM usage is consistently pegged.
Regarding the HDD, I do plan on running RAID--this time RAID5. The 50% overhead using RAID1 is just too costly. I will most likely take your advice with the RAID 5 setup, I found a great deal just now on those 36G 15k HDDs and bought 3 more for a total of 6. That'd give me about 153GB usable space which should be fine for the OS and AC. I'll have to re-read some of the other options that you proposed, I have no experience with having a raid array for an OS and another for data.
With 6 drives now I suppose I could use 2 or 3 for the OS (RAID1 or 5) and 3 or 4 for the data (RAID5), hopefully the built-in controller can handle that configuration.
I have many parts en route to me now and I'm going to play around with SBS 08 and the RAID configs for a while. It doesn't need to go live until June, but I'd like to have all the annoyances that always pop up ironed out.
Thanks again for the help!
