![]() ![]() Together with the articles it links to it provides an adequate estimate on disk usage after initial installation. I found some useful numbers related to system requirements in Microsoft KnowledgeBase article 304297. Since this post is about disk drives I'm most interested in the disk size requirements. Let's look at the system requirements for members of the Windows NT family since 1997. Most of us can't remember Windows NT before version 4.0, although I had the pleasure a couple of years ago to troubleshoot a Windows NT 3.51 Server. Microsoft Windows NT is Microsoft's family of Operating Systems for businesses. ![]() While I believe my findings to be true, only time can tell whether they are. This post assumes the latest figures for Windows Server 2008 are congruent with the figures for Windows NT in the past ten years. Let's first look at some statistical data from the past few years and after that look at the years you want your server to offer services without disk space problems. I can imagine that after reading part 1 of the 'Big Drive Problem" one essential question remained unanswered and haunted your thoughts: How big should I make my C:\ drive if I move every dynamic, sensitive or performance related piece of data from it? I intend to answer that question in this post. ![]()
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