Can someone clear soemthing up for me in a RAID setup.
I'm working with a consultant from our parent company, and we're setting up 5 servers (all the same). They are all RAID systems.
Now he's instructing me to simply make one huge C: partition in win2k for RAID 5. He says we won't want any other partititons. I'm used to making a C: for all the OS files and then adding a partiton for say file storage or whatever else is needed. In his "instructions sheet" he has printed:
"Never partition a single disk array into multiple partitions, unless required by the application. This makes no logical sense, does not provide a physical benefit, and needlessly consumes drive letters."
Now have I been misled all these years in using RAID? I thought you could make partitions however you wanted with no performace hit or other effects.
At my old places of employment we used RAID all the time and partitioned it however we wanted to.
I'm so confused!
I'm working with a consultant from our parent company, and we're setting up 5 servers (all the same). They are all RAID systems.
Now he's instructing me to simply make one huge C: partition in win2k for RAID 5. He says we won't want any other partititons. I'm used to making a C: for all the OS files and then adding a partiton for say file storage or whatever else is needed. In his "instructions sheet" he has printed:
"Never partition a single disk array into multiple partitions, unless required by the application. This makes no logical sense, does not provide a physical benefit, and needlessly consumes drive letters."
Now have I been misled all these years in using RAID? I thought you could make partitions however you wanted with no performace hit or other effects.
At my old places of employment we used RAID all the time and partitioned it however we wanted to.
I'm so confused!
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