How to handle large database in NT?(m50)

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: ?

Ans1:

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.


Ans2:

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.


Ans3:

Why not use subdirectories?
 
 
 

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