Upgrading to X2K won't alleviate your drive configuration issues and may
even exacerbate them.  For performance and redundancy in a production
environment at the very least you should have:

- system and transaction logs on a (2 disk) mirror
- stores on a RAID5 array

S

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Hi, Drewski
I am going to use this server for 10 month only, then I would upgrade the
server to Exchange 2000 server. 
If I am running RAID 5 on all my three drives, are you saying I could just
have C and D drive instead of having C, D, E, and F drives? It won't matter
at all.

Thanks
John Shi





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With the set up you have, it really doesn't matter, because your partitions
are either sharing physical drives, or spanning physical drives -- so if a
drive fails, you'll lose everything anyway.

Drew (MOS)
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:53 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: A good space for the Exchange server 5.5 configuration.


Hi, Everyone

I have a server that has 3*18.2 GB. I have 4 GB on the C drive.

I have installed a Windows 2000 server and SP2 on the C drive. I need to
install Exchange server 5.5 on that.

I would like to find out what is the best space usage for private
Information store, Public Information store, Information Store Logs,
Directory Service, Directory Service logs, and MTA.

Should I just have C and D drive or I should have C, D, E, F drive? How do
I allocate these spaces?

The following is what I see from the MS book..

Private Information store C:\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA
Public Information Store C:\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA
Inforamtion Store Logs D:\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA
Directory Service F:\exchsrvr\DSADATA
Message Transfer Agent E:\exchsrvr\mtadata


I do not know how to allocate the disk space on each drive.

Thanks
John Shi

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