Hi All,
I need some advice on how to set up a small business server for a company with less than 6 employees typically. The server is mostly used for sharing files and to allow an accountant to RDP and use quickbooks remotely.
I have a ThinkServer with four 2 TB drives. I am about to install Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 but am not sure how to set it up as far as RAID and disk partitions.
We won't use the server for anything but file sharing and allowing the accountant to RDP. We typically have about 500 GB of data and may expand up to 1TB but probably no more than that in the next few years.
Does anyone have advice on how to set up the partitions, and RAID for this server with four 2TB drives? I was thinking of having a partition for the O/S, a partition (maybe 500GB) for our Data (1TB or even 2TB), and an additional partition for nightly automatic backups (probably 1TB or even 2TB). Then I was thinking RAID could help on top of that? Or should I have completely separate drives for the O/S, for the Data, and for the nightly backups, and then set up some type of RAID scheme?
In addition, I plan to connect an external 1TB USB flash drive and perform a second automated nightly backup to that drive every night.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I need some advice on how to set up a small business server for a company with less than 6 employees typically. The server is mostly used for sharing files and to allow an accountant to RDP and use quickbooks remotely.
I have a ThinkServer with four 2 TB drives. I am about to install Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 but am not sure how to set it up as far as RAID and disk partitions.
We won't use the server for anything but file sharing and allowing the accountant to RDP. We typically have about 500 GB of data and may expand up to 1TB but probably no more than that in the next few years.
Does anyone have advice on how to set up the partitions, and RAID for this server with four 2TB drives? I was thinking of having a partition for the O/S, a partition (maybe 500GB) for our Data (1TB or even 2TB), and an additional partition for nightly automatic backups (probably 1TB or even 2TB). Then I was thinking RAID could help on top of that? Or should I have completely separate drives for the O/S, for the Data, and for the nightly backups, and then set up some type of RAID scheme?
In addition, I plan to connect an external 1TB USB flash drive and perform a second automated nightly backup to that drive every night.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.