Re: 2003 Partition Recomendations

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From: Dwayne (no_at_no.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:39:46 -0400

We are a fairly small company and the only thing I have available is a
single raid 5 with three hard drives. I guess since I only have this setup
available then partitioning doesn't make much sense. Thanks for the help
and the links.

"Pavel Nagaev" <pnagaev@yandex.ru> wrote in message
news:uaHoznwUEHA.2988@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Look here.
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/library/messsyst.mspx
>
> Also you find a lot of documentation here.
> http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/library
>
> Great Jim McBee recommended to create three partitions on three separates
> RAIDs.
>
> 1.RAID 5 -> Operation system
> 2.RAID 5 -> Exchange + databases
> 3.Mirrored drive-> Transaction logs
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> Pavel Nagaev
>
> Mail server administrator, MCSA/MCSE
> Caspian Pipeline Consortium
> Novorossiysk, Russia
>
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>
> "Dwayne" <no@no.com> wrote in message
> news:uKkNYhlUEHA.2840@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> I am getting ready to install two Windows 2003 servers and one will have
>> Exchange 2003. I have not found any recommendations on the Microsoft
>> web
>> site as far as partitioning the drives. The one server will have two ide
>> hard drives and I will be just setting up a mirror. The Exchange will be
>> raid five with three 40gb SCSI drives. Could anyone help me out with the
>> recommended partitions for these two servers? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Dwayne
>>
>>
>

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