That's a recommended Maximum of 2TB per user, or overall? Just curious.
--Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:30:48 -0700 Subject: RE: Outlook 2007, constant hard disk thrashing. > To ASB's point.... PST != OST. > > A PST is purely a Outlook object. > > A OST is both an Outlook and an Exchange object. (Although, I can assure > you, Exchange wishes for a different format - but that's neither here nor > there.) > > Today, I consider 5 GB trivial. If you want to talk to me about a 5 TB > database, then I might consider putting it on a dedicated partition. > > FYI: For Exchange 2010, Microsoft recommends a maximum mailbox database of 2 > TB; but supports mailbox databases up to 64 TB. > > [[ Yes, you read that right - 64 TB. ]] > > ________________________________________ > From: Ben Scott [mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:03 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Outlook 2007, constant hard disk thrashing. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:20 PM, <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This has nothing to do with Exchange, at least as it pertains to PSTs. > > Well, since Outlook is the native Exchange client, and since Outlook > 2003 and later prefer to have an OST going all the time ("Cached > Mode"), it does have *something* to do with Exchange. ;-) > > It perhaps also has something to do with NTFS's rather poor handling > of fragmentation, but to be honest, if I've got a 5 GB database file, > I'd prolly want that on its own partition no matter what OS or > filesystem I was using. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
