Guest P R Quasi Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 hello what do you recommend to be best practice for partitioning disks? some say split into a C: for your system files and D: for you data others like to put everything on C: some like more complicated partition schemes with more seperate partitions for page file or user settings what do you think? if so, what sizes are good for now and for the future? all one partition sounds easiest but is there a drawbacks? thank you
Guest SmallBizW2K3User Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Re: disk partitioning best practice Some many tangiables involved when deciding how to partition. RAID Controller? Single or Dual? total disks and sizes? SATA? SCSI? "P R Quasi" <quasi@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:e5ca6084-8692-45f6-8c4c-7c95e01ce226@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > hello > > what do you recommend to be best practice for partitioning disks? > > some say split into a C: for your system files and D: for you data > > others like to put everything on C: > > some like more complicated partition schemes with more seperate > partitions for page file or user settings > > what do you think? > > if so, what sizes are good for now and for the future? > > all one partition sounds easiest but is there a drawbacks? > > thank you
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Re: disk partitioning best practice Hello P, If you split it in c and d you have the data availbale for example when your server crashes and you have to reinstall it. For the size you have to plan what OS you will use in the future on the machines. WIth 2003 and some software, i would use min 10GB, in 2000 6GB as a minimum for a system drive. Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > hello > > what do you recommend to be best practice for partitioning disks? > > some say split into a C: for your system files and D: for you data > > others like to put everything on C: > > some like more complicated partition schemes with more seperate > partitions for page file or user settings > > what do you think? > > if so, what sizes are good for now and for the future? > > all one partition sounds easiest but is there a drawbacks? > > thank you >
Guest P R Quasi Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Re: disk partitioning best practice i do not follow this you can reinstall without wiping all of C: so why would you need to put all data on a seperate D: ? On 5 Dec, 23:15, Meinolf Weber <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello P, > > If you split it in c and d you have the data availbale for example when your > server crashes and you have to reinstall it. For the size you have to plan > what OS you will use in the future on the machines. WIth 2003 and some software, > i would use min 10GB, in 2000 6GB as a minimum for a system drive. > > Best regards > > Meinolf Weber > Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers > no rights. > ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups > ** HELP us help YOU!!!http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > > > hello > > > what do you recommend to be best practice for partitioning disks? > > > some say split into a C: for your system files and D: for you data > > > others like to put everything on C: > > > some like more complicated partition schemes with more seperate > > partitions for page file or user settings > > > what do you think? > > > if so, what sizes are good for now and for the future? > > > all one partition sounds easiest but is there a drawbacks? > > > thank you
Guest P R Quasi Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Re: disk partitioning best practice let us say you have just one large disk probably it sits on a raid but the operating sytsems see it as one disk to be partitioned however how would total size affect you decision? and scsi or sata is that relevant to partition choice? On 5 Dec, 23:14, "SmallBizW2K3User" <small...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some many tangiables involved when deciding how to partition. RAID > Controller? Single or Dual? total disks and sizes? SATA? SCSI? > > "P R Quasi" <qu...@mailinator.com> wrote in messagenews:e5ca6084-8692-45f6-8c4c-7c95e01ce226@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > > > hello > > > what do you recommend to be best practice for partitioning disks? > > > some say split into a C: for your system files and D: for you data > > > others like to put everything on C: > > > some like more complicated partition schemes with more seperate > > partitions for page file or user settings > > > what do you think? > > > if so, what sizes are good for now and for the future? > > > all one partition sounds easiest but is there a drawbacks? > > > thank you
Guest SmallBizW2K3User Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Re: disk partitioning best practice Of course it is relevent. Take for instance my setup. I have a DELL server with a dual channel RAID controller. On one channel I have 2x36GB SCSI HDD RAID1(Mirror) with only my OS (C: drive) installed on it. My other channel I have 7x73GB SCSI HDD RAID 5 with one hot spare. No if my OS drives go out I'm still online because of my mirrored set. If both go out (hardly likely) then all I need to recover is my OS C: drive because my D: drive is totally seperate. And visa versa. Id my D: drive crashes (again hardly likely because of my RAID 5 Array and my hot spare) then my system is still up and running and I can restore my data and still be online. With just a single drive if it goes bad all goes bad. Single or multiple partitions. "P R Quasi" <quasi@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:1a1675c9-eb44-4be7-8d5c-e208b4febb32@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > let us say you have just one large disk > > probably it sits on a raid but the operating sytsems see it as one > disk to be partitioned however > > how would total size affect you decision? and scsi or sata is that > relevant to partition choice? > > On 5 Dec, 23:14, "SmallBizW2K3User" <small...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Some many tangiables involved when deciding how to partition. RAID >> Controller? Single or Dual? total disks and sizes? SATA? SCSI? >> >> "P R Quasi" <qu...@mailinator.com> wrote in >> messagenews:e5ca6084-8692-45f6-8c4c-7c95e01ce226@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... >> >> > hello >> >> > what do you recommend to be best practice for partitioning disks? >> >> > some say split into a C: for your system files and D: for you data >> >> > others like to put everything on C: >> >> > some like more complicated partition schemes with more seperate >> > partitions for page file or user settings >> >> > what do you think? >> >> > if so, what sizes are good for now and for the future? >> >> > all one partition sounds easiest but is there a drawbacks? >> >> > thank you >
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 Re: disk partitioning best practice Rule of thumb: do not place data files on the same partition as the system drive. Data should always reside on another hard disk. Think - IO paging, redundancy (RAID 5 on data hdds). -- Jabez Gan Microsoft MVP: Windows Server - File Storage "P R Quasi" <quasi@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:7c1cc0b6-adb9-4daa-b95e-fa1aaf1fce96@d61g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... >i do not follow this > > you can reinstall without wiping all of C: so why would you need to > put all data on a seperate D: ? > > On 5 Dec, 23:15, Meinolf Weber <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote: >> Hello P, >> >> If you split it in c and d you have the data availbale for example when >> your >> server crashes and you have to reinstall it. For the size you have to >> plan >> what OS you will use in the future on the machines. WIth 2003 and some >> software, >> i would use min 10GB, in 2000 6GB as a minimum for a system drive. >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers >> no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!!http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm >> >> > hello >> >> > what do you recommend to be best practice for partitioning disks? >> >> > some say split into a C: for your system files and D: for you data >> >> > others like to put everything on C: >> >> > some like more complicated partition schemes with more seperate >> > partitions for page file or user settings >> >> > what do you think? >> >> > if so, what sizes are good for now and for the future? >> >> > all one partition sounds easiest but is there a drawbacks? >> >> > thank you >
Guest Mike Posted December 7, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Re: disk partitioning best practice Most enterprise systems use Raid 1 on the system disk with minimum 12 GB. Recommended 32 GB. Data resides on Raid 5 Data disk, minimum three disks with dedicated hot spare. "P R Quasi" <quasi@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:e5ca6084-8692-45f6-8c4c-7c95e01ce226@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > hello > > what do you recommend to be best practice for partitioning disks? > > some say split into a C: for your system files and D: for you data > > others like to put everything on C: > > some like more complicated partition schemes with more seperate > partitions for page file or user settings > > what do you think? > > if so, what sizes are good for now and for the future? > > all one partition sounds easiest but is there a drawbacks? > > thank you
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