I have been reading a bunch of links on setting up a Windows 2012 R2 server to house Exchange Server standard 2013.   My company is small  <100 mailboxes.  My thought was to have two disk volumes.  Let's call them C: and D:.  I was planning on installing the operating system on the C: drive and all of the Exchange system on the D: drive (configured as a Raid 10 drive).  Does this make sense or should I be doing something else.

TIA for ideas.

Bob

Hi

Put your DB on D:\ and Logs on E:\

What kind of disks are these? SAN or local storage?

Hi Ed!

I was planning on using SAS 10K RPM drives. Local drives.

What do you think about RAID options on d: and e:?

Thanks,

Bob

• Edited by rkadsit 15 hours 56 minutes ago

Hi Ed!

I was planning on using SAS 10K RPM drives. Local drives.

What do you think about RAID options on d: and e:?

Thanks,

Bob

• Edited by rkadsit Wednesday, February 04, 2015 7:54 PM

Hi Bob

Your SAN should be Raid 10 unless you opted for Raid 6 :-), both are fine.

Hi Ed,

I think you may have misread my reply of SAS drives for SAN.  These drives will all be local to the server.  I'm looking at an 8 disk system with which to establish my disk volumes.  Thanks again for helping me out!

Bob

Hi Bob,

You can use the following tool for planning your deployment.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Exchange-2010-Mailbox-Server-Role-

Thanks,