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Volume configuration involves deciding how to organize physical drives into logical storage units, especially in server environments. In a recent discussion on WindowsForum.com, a user setting up an HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10 with four 1TB drives for a small office file share and Filemaker Database considered RAID 10 for performance and redundancy, which yields one volume. The question was whether to use two arrays (one for OS, one for data) or a single RAID 10 with separate partitions. This highlights common trade-offs in volume configuration: balancing performance, redundancy, and manageability for Windows Server Essentials 2016.
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    Best Practise Hard Drive Setup

    Hi there, I'm setting up an HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10 for a simple small office file share and host a Filemaker Database. There is 4 HD slots and I have 4 x 1TB drives. I can setup all four in a RAID 10 array which gives performance and redundancy but only gives me 1 volume. Should I be...
    • Kingkreg
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    • best practise data partition database file sharing filemaker hard drive hpe microserver performance raid redundancy setup small office storage system setup volume configuration windows server
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    • Forum: Windows Server Forums
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