Best Practise Hard Drive Setup

[Kingkreg]

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 considering setting up 2 arrays and having the OS (Windows Server Essentials 2016) on 1 and the data share on the other? Or is it better to have the RAID 10 setup then use a separate partition for the OS and the Data?

Many thanks for any advice, I'd rather get it setup right first time!
Craig

 

[Neemobeer]

Really depends what you intend to do with it, but it is generally a good practice to keep the OS on it's own drive or at least partition. Since you're limited to 4 disks, you could do a RAID 1+0 and then shrink the C drive down to maybe 200GB, then create another partition at make that data.

 

[Kingkreg]

Really depends what you intend to do with it, but it is generally a good practice to keep the OS on it's own drive or at least partition. Since you're limited to 4 disks, you could do a RAID 1+0 and then shrink the C drive down to maybe 200GB, then create another partition at make that data.

That's what I figured would make the most sense. The data is currently around 500GB, and although that will slowly increase, having ~800GB partition should be enough for now.

Thanks for the response, it's good to know I'm heading in the right direction.