RE: Size of Personal Folders

[Ray Zorz]

Title: Message

The fact is PST's have a problem at 2 gig.  End of discussion for your users.  Even if you don't use PST's, mailboxes over 2 gigs is a problem, because one DR method might include using EXMERGE, which creates PST's. -----Original Message----- From: ONG Liang Bu (CSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Size of Personal Folders Jack,   The server cannot add anymore harddisk.  Using 2 Compaq Proliant 6500 runs as clustered with one disk disk array. The disk array has 6 18.2G disks, two are raid 0, for the transaction logs. Four are raid-5 (1 of them is redundant disk). It turn up the firmware on the raid controller card is quite old. If I add one more disk to the disk array I need to redo the raid 5 again, which is quite a hassle.   Anyway it is the same old story, users do not want to keep old mails. Have double the quota twice, from 10 M to 20 then to 40 M.  After 6 months they come back and ask for more.  We have installed the Mailbox Manager and will purge anything that is more than 1 yr old.   Ong LB   -----Original Message----- From: EALES, Jack / RSAIFS - IOM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 8:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Size of Personal Folders Anything bigger than 1.99Gb (i.e 2Gb +) will no longer work..... Disk space is so cheap at the moment, why not but some more for the server and continue to take advantage of Single Instance Storage (SIS) in Exchange. That way, overall, you will use less disk space all up and ensure that your backups are complete and simpler then using PST's scattered around the place...   HTH   Jack -----Original Message----- From: ONG Liang Bu (CSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 December 2001 12:19 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Size of Personal Folders THIS MESSAGE ORIGINATED ON THE INTERNET - Please read the detailed disclaimer below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi,   I have been a lurker in this list for the past two yrs.  Have to say this list has save my ass on many occasions.  Recently the file blocking discussions save me from the GONE.SCR, Thanks for the tips.   Just a simple question I will not mind if I do not get an answer.   Anybody knows how big can a personal folder grow?   The reason I asked is my users are growing and I am running out of disk space.  We are due to an upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 at the mid next yr.  At the mean time I am advising the users to temporary pull their mails to the personal folder.  I read it somewhere the personal folder cannot be too large.  In fact anything above 1 G is not advisable. Definitely Microsoft must have a design spec, say .edb file in Ex 5.5 standard is 16 G; so .pst must have a design limitation.  It will not be safe for 1 G, 2 G ... At the moment I am advising them not to have it more than 1G, but to the mid next yr is a long time..   Any points to enlighten on this issue is appreciatd.  One more thing I am trying out Antigen, not bad at all.   Many thanks (sincerely thanks for the many tips for the past 2 yrs) Ong LB Exchange Adminsitrator National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University Singapore   List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following message has been automatically added by the mail gateway to comply with a Royal & Sun Alliance IT Security requirement: As this email arrived via the Internet you should be cautious about its origin and content. Replies which contain sensitive information or legal/contractual obligations are particularly vulnerable. In these cases you should not reply unless you are authorised to do so, and adequate encryption is employed. If you have any questions, please speak to your local desktop support team or IT security contact. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm