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Best disk configuration for Exchange 2007
Hello,
I have a client with a new Dell PowerEdge 2950. The sever has 2 x 73GB drive and 4 x 300Gb drives. I have read all the post and articles, but am still struggling with the best drive/partition setup. The server will host about 150 users, once we import all the mail we figure to be using about 70GB. I don't think doing 3 mirrored sets will work, because we lose to much disk space.
I have a client with a new Dell PowerEdge 2950. The sever has 2 x 73GB drive and 4 x 300Gb drives. I have read all the post and articles, but am still struggling with the best drive/partition setup. The server will host about 150 users, once we import all the mail we figure to be using about 70GB. I don't think doing 3 mirrored sets will work, because we lose to much disk space.
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Mal Osborne
I agreee. 150 users is not a lot, that config should work just fine.
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Thank you both, that's the direction I was heading. One more thing, we are going to use multiple storage groups and databases so we will have more log files, but I assume the space taken by the log files isn't much more? What is a rule of thumb for how much space the log files will use?
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Just thought of one more thing, the Exchange install files (program files) should be on C: as well, correct?
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Experts, thank you very much for you quick response and excellent answers.
Log files are wholey determined by how much mail traffic you have between backups - if you receive/send 5GB of mail a day, but only do a full backup once a week, your logs will require more than 25GB of space.