Disk size for system drive.

[Eco]

Currently, we run 3 old server for more than 5 years with Winnt and win2000
server. All 3 servers's system drive ( Drive C don't have sufficient disk
space for windows update. Only have 1Gb or 600Mb, so I stop all windows
update for these servers.

Now will install a new server hardware later and has the following
questions.

Q1: Is it still be better divide the system and data storage drive? ie. OS
installs at C drive as system partition and data files installed on other
drive?
Q2: After several years or a certain period, system drive (C Drive) won't
have enough disk space for paging file or windows update, how large the
partition size will you reccommend for production running? Is 60G too large
for it?

 

[Dave Patrick]

:
| Currently, we run 3 old server for more than 5 years with Winnt and
win2000
| server. All 3 servers's system drive ( Drive C don't have sufficient
disk
| space for windows update. Only have 1Gb or 600Mb, so I stop all windows
| update for these servers.
|
| Now will install a new server hardware later and has the following
| questions.
|
| Q1: Is it still be better divide the system and data storage drive? ie. OS
| installs at C drive as system partition and data files installed on other
| drive?
*** Yes, one for operating system and programs, another for data.


| Q2: After several years or a certain period, system drive (C Drive) won't
| have enough disk space for paging file or windows update, how large the
| partition size will you reccommend for production running? Is 60G too
large
| for it?
*** 20 to 30 gB should be sufficient. No, 60 isn't too large.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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[Guest]

Q1: Is it still be better divide the system and data storage drive? ie. OS

installs at C drive as system partition and data files installed on other
drive?

Yes it is better to divide the data from OS. It is NOT recommended to use a
single drive and partitions to accomplish this. It is highly recommended, if
doing a new server, to have scsi hardware raid with 6 hot swap disks. Two
for the OS [raid1 mirrored] and three disks in a Raid5 for data and one disk
as hot failover spare. This makes future expansion/growth possible and
fairly easy to do.

Q2: After several years or a certain period, system drive (C Drive) won't
have enough disk space for paging file or windows update, how large the
partition size will you reccommend for production running? Is 60G too large
for it?

I agree with Dave on both points.