Jove

I am configuring a server at work and I need some suggestions about which applications should be installed on which drive, but first I need to show you some information about the server.

Model: Dell Power-edge 6850
Intel Xeon Multiprocessor 3.16 GHZ with 4 GB of RAM and 533 GB Hard drive.

C drive
Amount of space: 12 GB
Current free space: 5.48 GB

D drive (user folder):
Amount of space: 273 GB
User Information and Folder: 9.3 GB
Free space after users information: 263.7 GB

E drive (application/data folder)
Amount of space: 266 GB
Free space: 255 GB

Should I install the applications on the d drive and have all the data placed on the e drive or should I have the applications and the data on the e drive?

Jinn

Where did you get this spec? It's organized strangely - what do you (or they) mean by User Information and Folder?

I'd just assume putting applications on D and data on E, depending on what "data" you're talking about.

The other thing that seems strange is most corporate/enterprise servers would have some sort of redundancy. Do they have expectations that these drives will be used in any sort of RAID configuration? As is, they're just three partitions of one physical drive.

If you can get a requisition for it or otherwise acquire it, I'd get Partition Magic. It'll let you resize your partitions, and you can arrange it better for your business need. If you don't have any data on it yet, you can also just use Windows installation format/partition tool, it'll get the job done.

Probably something you'd be better off to ask your boss than us, in any event.

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snicka

I would suggest wiping both D and E and then creating an spanned partition to use them both as one drive at 500+ GB. Unless you want redundancy, in which case the point is moot, just use them both in a RAID configuration and only have around 260 GB for both.

bendsley

What I would suggest is completely using separate disks for the OS and the Data. That way, if the OS fails, the data drives are still fine and vice versa. Use two harddrives in RAID 1 for the OS, 73gb would be fine. For the other 4 harddrive slots, you might choose either RAID 5 across 4 drives and then just use two partitions.....or.....you could have to more RAID 1 arrays each using two harddrives (one for data and one for user files or whatever).

I just like the fact that if the drives are separate, you don't have to reload the OS and recover the data, you just have to do one. As always though, get the machine the way you like it and make an image of the OS part at least.

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