We have 4 X250 GB Storage groups (Drives) to handle 8 Mail databases 2 Mail DB per drive. We dedicated 500 GB for logs on another drive. Is it best practice to keep all the files/DB in seperate folders to keep things neat? Same with the log files - It does not make sense to point all 8 sets of log files into a single drive if they are not in seperate folders? For example If I have a mailbox db called "Orange" I would create a folder called "Orange" on my 250 GB drive and point my mail db to that "Orange" folder - Log files would be setup same way on the 500 GB drive in the Orange folder. I then create a new mailbox db called "Apple" and place it in a folder called "Apple" and do the same thing for the logs - put them in the "Apple" folder on the log drive? Hope I am making sense. thanks. -John

Hi John, Yes best practice is to put all databases & log files to different LUNs. Or at least separate databases and log files by putting them on different LUNs. As you said put database in a DB drive and log files to common log drive by separating those with folder name would be fine but putting all logs in single drive would reduce the performance due to multiple access. References: Planning Storage Configurations http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124518.aspx Mailbox Server Storage Design http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738147.aspx