Re: Databases & Transaction logs on same spindle

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You'd be much better off putting th elogs on the same spindle as the OS as
that's a RAID1 mirror set b/c of the write perf. The databases can go on the
other array.


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--Brian Desmond
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"RAJ" <RAJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> In my now enviroment I have an Exchange 2003 Ent. edition server running
> on
> Win2K3 Standard edition.
> The person who built the server did the following:
> 6 drives; 2 drives mirrored w/ the OS (C:\) and 4 drives RAID 0+1 w/ the
> database & transaction logs (E:\).
> I'm having I/O performance issues on E:\ (Event ID 509)
> I want to seperate the database files and transaction log files and I
> don't
> want to blow away the RAID config.
> I'm thinking of putting the database files on C:\ w/ the OS.
> Would this be acceptable in terms of performance, stability & reliability?
> Comments; suggestions...
> Thank you.
>


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