Re: Separating AD Log and Data Files...Benefits out weigh the costs?

for the best performance:
OS on RAID1 (a lot of reading and writing)
AD DB on RAID 5 (a lot of reading)
AD LOGS on RAID1 (a lot of writing)
AD SYSVOL on RAID5 (a lot of reading)

For the DCs in your scenario it should be more than enough to have:
OS, AD DB, AD LOGS, AD SYSVOL on RAID1

I do advise to create a separate partition for the AD stuff (AD DB, AD LOGS,
AD SYSVOL) and put nothing else on that drive. Leave it for AD stuff only

14 DCs? Why?

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"Korman" <Korman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am building two Windows 2003 domain controllers to replace our last 2
> Win2K DCs. I have a colleague who is insisting we separate the AD
> Database
> Log and data files on to separate disk for performance. I am aware this
> is
> best practice with most databases but it seems a bit over kill for our
> environment and forces us to purchase servers with more then two disk
> bays,
> the current plan is to rebuild the DCs on Dell PowerEdge 1850 with Dual
> 3.0
> Ghz CPU and 2.0 GB of ram 36 GB hardware Raid1
>
> Single Domain Model
> 500 Users
> 200 servers
> 500 Workstations
> 14 DCs


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