Re: Large NT databases

How large is large? With 20GB drives available ($300 IDE, $800 SCSI ?), using 20 on a machine would give you a 400GB database.

Have you got the controller slots?

How are you going to back it up?>There are a lot of little questions like that that come into play.

Depending on controller, you may not need the letters. I have an NT server with a SCSI controller that has my G: drive at 128GB.

In article <37238F42.1832C28F_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>,   "Christopher M. Day" <christopher.day_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Kinda kicks OFA in the teeth? After Z: you need to use raw partitions
> and assign your drives as per OPS on NT.(Check out setlinks.exe to make
> aliases for raw partitions)
>
> Interesting how the 8i installation guide for NT promises the benefits
> of OFA, but delivers them all under c: !
>
> The only hope is that maybe W2000 might resolve this.
>
> Chris.
>
> Jonathan Gennick wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking the other day about creating large NT
> > databases, when a question suddenly struck me. How do you
> > name the drives? On a UNIX system that I manage, we have
> > seventy drives allocated for a database. Naming is easy. We
> > have seventy mount points numbered from /M01 through /M70.
> > How would you do this on NT? There aren't enough drive
> > letters. What happens after Z: ?
> >
> > Jonathan
>

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