desktop hard drive space may be cheap, but no so for SAN space. A four-fold increase in the amount of space needed for a default install is still a big deal.
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Matthew Small wrote: > > Minimum: 10GB > Recommended: 40GB or greater > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/cc196364.aspx > > Seriously, why would you want a 10 or 20Gb drive in this day and age? 2000 > and 2003 are 10 and 6 years old, respectivly. In 6 years, the amout of stuff > inside the OS has substantially changed - UAC and other security stuff, as > well as the .NET framework stuff is taking up a large part of that extra > drive space. Consider that the web server has changed substantially. The > increase in RAM also requires far more info to be paged to the drive. > Finally, given that this is a 64-bit system (sxs), there are many more dlls > that are in use due to the ability to run both 32 and 64 bit processes. > > All of these thing are sucking up drive space which is far cheaper than it > was 6 or 10 years ago. > > It's not unlike putting W2000S on a machine with a 4Gb HD. > > > > > > > > >> We've started deploying Win Srvr 2008 with SqlServer 2008 in our >> organization. Our standard deploy for Win 2000 & 2003 server was a >> 10G "c drive" and then a "d drive" of varying size depending on the >> app. >> >> I started out with a 10G drive and quickly noticed it was getting full >> with only the OS installed. I bumped up the drive size to 20G and >> installed sql server and configured it to use the d drive for db >> storage. >> >> That was a week ago. Today I remoted into the machine and was >> presented with the "You have limited space on the c drive". It had >> 72Mb left. WTF? The main culprit seems to be a dll cache in the >> Windows/winsxs dir....it's at 7.5G by itself. >> >> This is pretty f'ed up. I can install a fully featured linux server >> in less than 1.5G why the hell does MS need so much space? >> >> sheesh... >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307794 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
