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How to specify SQL Server disk space, and support the recommendation?

Newsgroups	comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Date	2014-02-12 08:14 -0800
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Subject	How to specify SQL Server disk space, and support the recommendation?
From	rja.carnegie@gmail.com

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We're planning migration of an enterprise reporting system 
to SQL Server 2012, and my boss needs an argument to support 
installing a certain amount of disc space for ongoing 
operations.  Can someone point me to a credible argument 
for a reasonable minimum allowance of free disk space in 
addition to our actual databases?

I believe that this includes not having to shrink database 
files to let others grow, which we are doing now.

With 1 TB of nightly crushed data, indexes and t-logs, and 0.6 TB 
free, I think that we should shop for around 4 TB total space,
and, /yes/ we /could/ buy that size of hard disk for under 
US$200 but apparently it isn't that simple.  Although, obviously,
it ought to be.

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How to specify SQL Server disk space, and support the recommendation? rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2014-02-12 08:14 -0800
  Re: How to specify SQL Server disk space, and support the recommendation? bradbury9 <ray.bradbury9@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 08:49 -0800
    Re: How to specify SQL Server disk space, and support the recommendation? rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2014-02-16 12:49 -0800

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