Is there a way of specifying the 'default' path for Indexes?

Also, with the Analytics service, I see the option to specify the Log path, can I put this on the...

I have 14 drives total, 2 internal, 12 hot swap. I'm also not worried about backups since they are stored on different systems, so I have 12 available...

The server has 24GB of memory. What about removing the RAID10 array for Logs, and replace it with 1 RAID1 array for Logs and 1 RAID1 array for tempdb?...

Your post seems to indicate that going with 3 RAID10 arrays is not that bad of an idea (especially after comparing performance/recovery time between RAID5/RAID10). I do plan on...

Definitely would love your input again, since I have 12 drives for just MSSQL data now (OS is on the internal RAID1 array), vs 10 originally. Based on previous...

So since I will have 2 internal drives for the OS, in a RAID1 configuration, I have 12 drives to play with for just the MSSQL stuff. What do...

I currently have my choices narrowed down to a Dell R510 server which supports 12+2 (internal bays) drives, and HP DL370 G6, which supports 16 drives.

This is the link he...

Thanks for the quick and detailed responses!

tempdb is pretty small (1GB), and currently sits on the OS partition, so I guess it couldn't get much worse performance wise. I...