No.
Actually partitioning like that is likely to hurt.
-sc
From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:57 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Basic Drive Partition Question
We've been arguing here...and I can't find anything definitive on
Performance no, perhaps even a small hit to performance. But you can keep the
data on another partition to keep it from filling and crashing the whole OS if
it were just all on one partition.
From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:57 PM
To: NT System
No articles but it's common knowledge that you have to have seperate spindles
to maintain performance with Exchange. You're still doing read|write with a
single drives heads no matter how you split it up.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
Painfully sent to you
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:56 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Performance no, perhaps even a small hit to performance. But you can
keep the data on another partition to keep it from filling and crashing
the whole OS if it were just all on one
Lol...that's too funny!!!
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster, outer edge of the
drive platters, and put your most
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Lol...that's too funny!!!
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster, outer
Sam what software do you use to accomplish that partitioning?
Cheers.
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Sam what software do you use to accomplish that partitioning?
Cheers.
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:31 PM
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:44 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Not funny at all, actually; it used to be quite common to avoid full stroke
access. You never wanted a disk to use more than 20% of its stroke time in
order to maximize
Dunno. I bow to her expertise.
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Interesting, I see your point. Still though, the head would be jumping
around a lot less. Wouldn't
:02 PM
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Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Interesting, I see your point. Still though, the head would be jumping
around a lot less. Wouldn't that contribute to some gains?
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From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
I expect a full report from her by the morning.
:)
Sam
From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Dunno. I bow to her
Before Mulholland chips in...Not as old as me!!
:)
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 6:10 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
I said USED TO BE. I'm old. :)
Regards,
Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE
Issues
Subject: Re: Basic Drive Partition Question
No articles but it's common knowledge that you have to have seperate spindles
to maintain performance with Exchange. You're still doing read|write with a
single drives heads no matter how you split it up.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
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From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
I say yes. What if you create a partition on the faster, outer edge of the
drive platters, and put your most accessed system
No way in hell would I put mbs in your bracket!! :p
You did ask for it!
From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Basic Drive Partition Question
Before Mulholland chips in...Not as old
It would depend on how you would deploy the server, IMHO. Keep in mind that
I'm strictly a SMB guy deploying a single SBS in most cases, so my
preference for partitioning a single drive has more to do with the
restrictions I have to deal with for Shadow Copy per partition.
From: Bill Lambert
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