I am looking into setting up the Windows Search service on our 2008 file servers so we can add our network drives to the Windows 7 document libraries. I am wondering what impact this will have on the file server, and how much disk space might be used by the service. Does anyone have any experience with this that they can share, or is there a general rule I can refer to?

hi RandomAdmin,thank you for posting in windows server forums, The hard disk space required for search server is Hard Disk Space :500 MB of available hard disk space recommended Note: The index size depends on how much content is included in the index I have pasted the link below which explains the FAQ on search server.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/techfaq.mspxsainath !analyze

hi randomadmin, good day...did you had a chace to go through my previous post ?sainath !analyze

I did, thank you. To anyone else reading this post, Microsoft advises that the average index size is 10-12% of the overall data. Also, the location of the indices can changed, but the change affect the indices for all of the drives being indexed.