Buildling RAID-0 on PowerEdge 2650

Hello,

I am hoping to get some input on a project I am working on. We have a
Dell PowerEdge 2650 With two seagate cheetah 36.7 GB drives and a PERC
RAID controller; this is our exchange server and is running windows
2000 AS. We had to break our mirror a few years back to cope with a
storage issue. Now that things are settled and the budget is better, we
are looking at re-installing our RAID-1. However, we need to do this
with zero data loss. I have purchased three more drives, and am
evaluating several options:

1.) RAID-1, same partitions. This seems to be the simplest way, to just
image the drives, setup a mirror, and re-image the drives. question is
though, will it work? will the OS allow us to just setup a RAID-1 and
re-image and work?

2.)RAID-5. Have never setup a RAID-5 mirror before, so I am near
clueless on this, minus the reading I have been doing over the past
week.

3.)RAID-1, dual partitions. Basically the same thing as option #1, but
would require a re-install of everything. Would be setup to use one
RAID-1 mirror for the OS, exchange binaries, and logfiles. another
RAID-1 mirror would provide for the data stores.

>>From what I understand, it would be possible to setup a live-spare in
RAID-5 but not -1?
Mainly, what can I do to keep from having to completely re-build the OS
and Exchange systems, as we have a large account base, and some rather
complex forwarding setup.

Thanks much

.

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