I’d just make a big C drive, personally. Partitions aren’t
going to help you… You could make a 12GB system partition and a D drive
for data or something if you wanted, though. Doesn’t really matter
assuming this is just going to be a DC. --brian From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Brown Lets' say I do this... put all drives in
Raid 5 or Raid 1 with the hot spare. Any recommendations on how to partition
it out. Domain has about 25 - 30K accounts in it... so it's relatively
small. Thanks, -- Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond My assumption based on the question is that the domain isn’t big
enough for there to be perf issues at the i/o end of things. RAID1 with a hot
standby works too. Given the 4hr or overnight replacement parts service on most
new servers, might as well RAID5 them and get the extra space. I don’t
know enough about how the RAID controller works to guess about which of the two
scenarios has more of an impact. --brian From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Johnson The other option, depending on size of
domain, to take Brian statement into account, is to RAID 1 the first 2 drives
and have the 3rd drive as a hot standby. This is based on the idea
that mirroring tends to be quicker than RAID 5. But at small write levels it
makes very little difference as Brian pointed out. I’m just thinking that
I hot standby might be an option from a point of view of availability. Which would have less performance impact,
calculating the missing/parity data on a RAID 5 set or rebuilding the mirror to
a host standby? Regards Peter JOhnson From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Just RAID5 the three of them together. 1 on its own is a silly idea in a
server really if it supports raid. 15K RPM drives are going to sustain a
significant amount of iops before you see a perf hit. From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Brown Hi, I have a new server with 4GB Ram and 3 (72GB) 15K
drives. Wondering what the best way to set this up would be. I was
planning on doing a raid mirror on 2 of the drives and having the 3rd by
itself. any suggestions on how I should partition / where I should
install the OS / ntds files, etc. Will be my new main Active Directory Server. Thanks, -- Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] |