Re: Choosing the proper disk setup. I need help and advice.

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From: ComfortablySAD (ComfortablySAD_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:19:02 -0700

Thanks for all the replies,

It does seem like I'm focusing a little heavy on I/O performance which
probably won't be the issue. I am fairly certain it's an issue on the server
this application currently runs on though. If I copy a backup of the main DB,
which is about 2GB, from one partition to another it can take close to
15min...which I doubt it good thing. The server has dual P3 933's in it and
2GB of RAM too.

The new server setup I have planned has 5 disks.

2 x 18GB 15K mirrored for the OS
3 x 36GB 15K RAID 5 for the App and data

I also will purchase 4GB of memory and will try and run everything out of RAM.

One quick question about that though. Microsoft has pagefile best practices
which which say that you'll lose error logs if there isn't a pagefile and you
system crashes. What size pagefile should I create to still recieve these
logs? Or shouldn't I worry about it?

Thanks again,

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