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tbrothers
Yak Posting Veteran

83 Posts

Posted - 2008-09-30 : 09:54:15

Hi,

SQL 2005 Ent.

What is the recommended percentage of free disk space? Our data and logs are on separate arrays. Our largest database is 85 GB.

Data Drive
Total Disk Space = 130 GB
Free = 30 GB

Thanks,
Terry

CodesMyBusiness
Starting Member

9 Posts

Posted - 2008-09-30 : 11:27:02

I admin a smaller SQL2000 system, and I can't notice any performance indicators if the hard drive has a small amount of megabytes to utilize, however you don't want to even get close to this limit, or else you'll run into some weird scenarios.

I would recommend keeping at least 100 mb free at all times. But I found the disk space requirements for 2005 here: [url]http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/0/e/50ec0a69-d69e-4962-b2c9-80bbad125641/RequirementsSQL2005.htm[/url]

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