The story is this annoying brokenness was fixed in WinVista/2008 and newer. :) Alignment should be fine. If you really want to be sure run diskpart from WinPE and use the ALIGN=64 option.
~JasonG > -----Original Message----- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:39 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Aligning disk track recommendations > > Getting ready to set up our Exchange 2010 servers and was reading about > aligning the disks. I found info on Exchange 2003 and 2007, > specifically with Windows 2003. > > Obviously we're going to run this on Windows 2008 R2 64bit. > The system drives are (3) 146GB 10K SAS RAID1 with spare. > The database drives are (12) 1TB 7.2K SATA RAID10. > > So does the same information that applies to Windows 2003 and Exchange > 2003/2007 apply to Windows 2008 R2 64 and Exchange 2010? > > -Paul > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist