Re: Some partitioning Advice.......

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I'd also do same.

And I'd have a RAID array. 1 shirty cheap SATA drive with the possibility of
300GB of data going south at any moment, brrrrrr, chills my spine.

"Kevin Rains" <krains@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There are many opinions on this...
>
> I like two partitions: 20GB for system, the rest for everything else
> (exchange, user folders, data, etc.).
>
> Kevin
>
> "markus" <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ed6cEDMXFHA.3280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > In setting up SBS2003 and using exchange, what's the recommended
> > partitioning scheme?
> > I have a 300G drive.
> > I've heard conflicting advice...
> >
> > 20 partition for the system? plus
> > 50G partition for the exchange databases? plus
> > the rest of the disk for data?
> >
> > Install new programs (antivirus, office, etc on the 20G system
partition?
> > or install them on the larger data partition?
> > is 50G for exchange too big? There is a 16G limit for exchange standard,
> is
> > there not?
> >
> > Is having a seperate partition for exchange really worth while?
> >
> > How do you normally do it on a fairly large disk??
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
>
>


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