Re: Hardware specs question

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Hey SG
This looks simple and clean. Thanks for the help. It's my small business, my
server, so unused space is under my control. I know that we will need to be
wary of keeping to much data, but I do not want to run into lack of space on
the primary drive again. Perhaps some preplanning from guys like you will
help me design the best possible HD layout I can this time around.
Thanks
Richard

"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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importantly, if you have 8 HDD's it is worthwhile reserving one as a
hotspare, the more drives you have the more likely one will fail.

So, 2 in RAID1 for OS, 5 in RAID5 for DATA, 1 hotspare.

I don't believe in reserving a seperate partition for Exchange, it seems
wasteful. Take a ridiculous (or maybe not) example, brand new Exchange so
the database is empty, we know it can grow to 75GB per store (priv & pub)
and that for performance reasons we don't want that partition to have less
than 30% free space.Roughly, this means reserving 200GB for a now empty
store. I'm more likely to place the Exch database in the general DATA
partition, at some future time I may need to add drives to increase
capacity, adding the drives as an additional partition and moving ExchDB
at
this time.

Even being more realistic with the figures, we project that priv will be
30GB a couple of years down the track, pub 15GB, plus freespace means
70GB.
The numbers work well, I grab a pair of 73G SCSI drives and RAID1 them, or
maybe 3*36s RAID5 (at 3/4ths the price), we slowly fill it.

You know what happens with unused space at my client's sites? I visit one
day and the owner has created a special project share on it 'But why?, we
discussed leaving that space free for reasonX', 'ReasonX is not as
important
as ProjectA'.

"Richard" <not@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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All,
Followed this thread with great interest. Have used sbs since V4.0, now
we
are ready to migrate from sbs2000 to sbs2003 and want to avoid the out
of
disk space problem that has happened on each version over time. Current
sbs2000 OS partition is 8GB and ran out of space in year 4. New
hardware
is
eight 32 GB drives. Based on what I'm reading here, looks like i should
set
up two for the RAID1 OS, the other six as RAID 5 for data. But what
about
the exchange DB? Should it be on a separate partition?
Thanks for helping.
Richard




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