With many servers and 136GB hard drives, SAN will be our next solution. Just too many zeros at this point...
-----Original Message----- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:30 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: wow....just wow 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:307811 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
