Cwhitmore wrote:
> I'm setting up a Win2003 server on AD as a domain controller. I have
> two 68GB SCSI disks mirrored (RAID 1), which only give me one virtual
> disk for the OS and any data. Should I partition the virtual disk and
> put MSDE on one partition and the OS on another or does it make any
> difference since they are both running from the same physical disks?

"Andrea Montanari" wrote:

> hi,
> Cwhitmore wrote:
> > I'm setting up a Win2003 server on AD as a domain controller. I have
> > two 68GB SCSI disks mirrored (RAID 1), which only give me one virtual
> > disk for the OS and any data. Should I partition the virtual disk and
> > put MSDE on one partition and the OS on another or does it make any
> > difference since they are both running from the same physical disks?
>
> the binaries (OS and SQL Server) do not get much benefit when spread across
> different physical disks...
> you could get better benefit if you spread the data and log database files
> across several disk to increase IO activity becouse of the multi spindles,
> so that each disk mechanich has fewer movements to perform...
> for binaries only I'd not take all that care...
> my $0.02
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
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