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Rob Fitzpatrick
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If you are going to split the disks into more than one volume, I would suggest using the second volume for AI extents and local backups, rather than BI. So if you lose the DB volume/array, you can still recover with last night's backup and the recent AI files on the other volume. You may also want to consider a separate volume for the OS and anything application-related: r-code, logs, temp files, etc., so that those things don't take I/O bandwidth from the DB. Do you have server-side clients or is this machine just a DB server? You haven't said what kind of disks you are considering. Are they spinning disks or SSD?
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