[AccessD] Clients and money

Ohh!  That makes perfect sense, I just read your post as some kind of a
method for configuring drives to an arbitrary "at capacity", not just
watching out to see how much was free.

Charlotte Foust 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman
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  If the expected usage is 100GB, then I make sure the drive space is at
least 167GB.  I always try to leave between 35% - 40% of free space on a
volume.

Jim 

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Foust
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>>size disks so that "at capacity", they are approx 60% full
Maybe I'm slow on the uptake today (blame it on my age, if you dare!)
but can you explain exactly what you mean by this, Jim?

Charlotte Foust


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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:34 PM
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  This once again proves the point I've been making to my clients over
the past 15 years; yes, you do need to defrag and defrag on a regular
basis.
Microsoft has always suggested that NTFS disks don't need defragging.
That's absolute baloney.  I've had too many cases where I've walked in,
found severe fragmentation on a server and gotten a 10 - 20% boost in
performance just by defragging (especially with older hardware). You
want your CPU and disk spending time processing stuff, not wasting their
time with wasted overhead.

  I thing I like to do is size disks so that "at capacity", they are
approx 60% full.  This keeps fragmentation at bay somewhat and defrags
will run quicker (more maneuvering room to work with).

Jim.