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The drives are not local. Through more investigation ive realized the maximum numbers of mailbox stores I can have are &nbsp;four production storage groups with five databases per storage group and a Recovery Storage Group that can handle up to five databases for recovery purposes. So A-Z would be enough to cover this for now.<br />
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The drives are not local. Through more investigation ive realized the maximum numbers of mailbox stores I can have are  four production storage groups with five databases per storage group and a Recovery Storage Group that can handle up to five databases for recovery purposes. So A-Z would be enough to cover this for now.

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Were adding additional business mailstores to out exchange environment and they are going to be assigned a drive letter in windows 2003. Were adding enough additional stores that we are going to use up A - Z fo drive letter. Is this the maximum it goes for drive letter assignment?<br />
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Thanks
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Were adding additional business mailstores to out exchange environment and they are going to be assigned a drive letter in windows 2003. Were adding enough additional stores that we are going to use up A - Z fo drive letter. Is this the maximum it goes for drive letter assignment?

Thanks

WIndows Server 2003 and Maximum amount of Hard drives.

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).