Re: Raid 5/ Partition size
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Date: 12/20/04
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:00:01 -0800
Thanks so much to you two for your help
>-----Original Message-----
>SuperGumby [SBS MVP] wrote:
>> guess what? in SBS2003 the M drive is not visible,
should never have
>> been in SBS2000 either. IMHO.
>
>I agree.
>>
>> I'm not sure whether the M drive reflects the size of
the drive onto
>> which the Exchange programs are installed
>
>Yep.
>
>> or the original location of
>> the store (more likely) but you can move the store to a
larger
>> partition at any time and the capacity of the M drive
(if you make it
>> visible), though it may not appear correctly, is the
capacity of the
>> store.
>>
>> Was buying SBS as OEM from Dell really cheaper than
ordering the
>> system without OS and buying the upgrade?
>
>In addition, to the OP: you should really rebuild this
box yourself anyway,
>including the RAID config. I don't like using
preinstalled servers!
>
>If you have a chance, get one more 73GB hard drive to use
as a global hot
>spare, Note that you only get 2x drive size usable space
in a RAID5 with
>three drives anyway.
>
>You can get away with a single RAID5 array on this
server, I imagine, but
>it's good to have another layer of protection; hence the
hotspare. Note also
>that RAID works better with more (small) disks than fewer
(large) ones...
>
>When you're installing the OS, make the system volume at
least 10-12GB. I'd
>use another partition for Exchange DBs/logs only - I'd
set aside at least
>36GB for that one. No performance gain, but you'll stop
users from, for
>example, saving all their MP3 files on the volume where
your Exchange data
>lives, and overrunning it/making your stores dismount.
The rest for data
>(user profiles, home directories, shared folders).
>
>Just my $.02.
>
>>
>> "John Jump" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>> news:052101c4e48b$94a2c9a0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>> We ordered a DELL server that is going to come with
Small
>>> Business Server 2003 Premium Edition preinstalled and
RAID
>>> 5 with three 73GB HDD. So I do not know how big the
>>> partition is going to be for "C". One thing I found
using
>>> SBS 2000 is that the size of the exchange drive(M) is
>>> limited to the size of drive "C". Would that be the
case
>>> here too? We do not have a RAID 5 solution on our
current
>>> setup. If that's the case I will need to get a hold of
>>> DELL and have them make that partition of a pretty good
>>> size, because Exchange data is really growing in this
>>> company.
>>>
>>> PLease give me some advice
>>>
>>> thanks
>
>
>
>.
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