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 [[email protected]] 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, <[email protected]> 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/> ~
