Suggestions for Hard Drive allocation

Hi, a very general questions for all experts whom been using CM for a long time. I'm in a need to change my existing CM2012 server due to a low specs which I miscalculated before. The existing specs are:
Quad Core procie
16GB RAM
2x 320GB OS with RAID1
3x 500GB data with RAID5
And the new server is much faster though a little problem on the hdd. The new machine is a Dell R720 with the ff specs:
16core procie
16GB RAM but expandable
3x 500GB hdd
My question is with my new machine (Dell R720) for me to maximize the 3 hdd, what is the best setup for this, usually I set these 3 as: 2x 500GB as RAID1 and the third hdd as hotspare.
Any other suggestions? because as I know, this will consume as soon as I configure WSUS with CM.
Regards
Jeff

Can't you just buy couple of disks more? I'd do RAID 1 for OS on smaller disks. And yes, you'll install OS (Windows 2012 R2), SQL (SQL Server 2012 SP1 Standard) and ConfigMgr (and it's site server roles including SUP/WSUS) on the same machine. You should
allocate own logical disks for all of these three if possible, that's why I'm suggesting to get more disks.
Johan has a pretty good post on the matter here:
http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/115/Sizing-your-ConfigMgr-2012-R2-Primary-Site-Server.aspx

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