John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Aug 28 19:19:02 CDT 2004
Thanks for the reference. That's the first I have seen that actually explains why. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 6:18 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problemsolving Subject: Re: [AccessD] VLDBs, the saga - Ramblings only On 28 Aug 2004 at 7:56, John W. Colby wrote: > > With any luck, given the massive compression PKZip managed to attain, > I will be able to shoehorn the 600g. > John, do not use compressed drives for SQL Server data. You are asking for trouble. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;231347 I did warn you before you got started about how much storage and processing power you were going to need. You just can't handle that amount of data without serious expenditure on the hardware. -- Stuart -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com