Typical Server Setup?

[Ubon94]

If you are going to install Windows 2003 or 2008 Server on a PC..what is the typical setup on the hard drive?

Raid 1? 5?
2x1TB Replicating each other?
How should you the hard drive Partition?
Where would you put sysvol and ntds at?

[MrDigital]

Depends on what the server is going to be used for but the following should work for almost everything.

I always do RAID1, single partition ( C: ) for system drives, never RAID5 because of performance issues. Never 2x1TB either, always small, fast drives. 15K SCSI or 10K SATA. 75GB or 150GB.

Use your terabyte drives for storage drives, which you can do in RAID5.

Unless you're going to be running a pretty heavy duty ADS implementation I wouldn't bother changing sysvol or ntds from their default locations on the C: drive. The performance overhead will be minimal if it's detectable at all.

[Ubon94]

When you added a client PC to the server where does his/her profile resigned at?
If a client saved a 10GB file on my document folder where does it resigned on the server?

[MrDigital]

When you added a client PC to the server where does his/her profile resigned at?
If a client saved a 10GB file on my document folder where does it resigned on the server?

You can set the location to anywhere you want. I create a /users folder on the storage array, and then set the profiles to that folder. If D: was my storage array, d:\users\mrdigital would be where my profile would be, and d:\users\ubon94 would be yours is.

You can also redirect the My Documents folder to wherever you want. If you want the My Documents folder to be separate from the regular /users folder, just redirect it somewhere else.

[Un4given]

On our servers at work we run two drives in a RAID 1 and then the storage array is a RAID 5.

As for where that file would be, that depends. By default the My Documents folder is under c:\documents and settings\[user name] but as Mr. D pointed out, they can be redirected, and we do much the same as what he said. We have a file server for storing data and point a users My Documents folder to \\fileserver2k4\users\[user name] and then sync the folders so they are available offline. Just remember some file types don't sync, like .pst and .mdb files.

[Ubon94]

Thanks guys..i'm going about building a lab to teach my self ..not sure if i'll have enough parts laying around for a new PC