RE: compacting IS (was Large Exchange Store)

[Allen Crawford]

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Thanks.  I figured as much and planned on only using half of my array for the IS and the other half for disaster recovery.  We are low-end and a notoriously cheap company, so we are going with IDE RAID and I have five 75GB drives in the array right now.  Unfortunately we are a heavy email company and people would go nuts if they could only have 100MB of storage.  How much space do you guys typically provide your users (common users, not the power users)?   -----Original Message----- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: compacting IS (was Large Exchange Store)   You should always take into account needing the disk space in the event of a disaster and "needing" to run database utilities.  With the costs of disk space decreasing just about daily, add as many drives as you can to the array and walk away a happy admin.   D     -----Original Message----- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 7:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: compacting IS (was Large Exchange Store) I have a quick question for you guys.  Originally I read that you should leave enough space free in your RAID array (at least twice the size of your store) so that you can compact if needed.  However, I have since learned on this list that compacting is not a good idea unless you absolutely have to do it, so I'm wondering if I really should reserve all that extra free space on my array or not?  Since I'm in the planning stages of how much mailbox space to give our users as we move to server-based storage, I was wondering about this.  Thanks a lot. -----Original Message----- From:   Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:01 AM To:     NT System Admin Issues Subject:        RE: Large Exchange Store You want it to startup faster????  Why is it even going down in the first place?  How big is the store? Personally, you haven't given me any reason to give you the answers you seek.  The server sounds like it is doing fine without your intervention... D "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm