I am deploying a pair of R720's with 8 600GB 10K drives , VMWare 5.5 will boot from SD or Internal USB. I am testing Raid 6 but will change to Raid-10 for production use. I have 8 open drive slots. Is it wiser to add more drives (can add 4 ) now or just add 8 more later and add 2nd local storage volume. Will there be performance hit by having two 8 drive volumes or should I stick with 12 or a full 16 drives in the volume?
Thanks for reading this.
- Lou