After years away from setting up and supporting SME server installations, I want to set up an SME home server for email and file storage on a fanless PC with an SSD and a mirrored pair of spinning disks. Having searched repeatedly for several days now, both in the Wiki and the forums, and more generally in Google, I have been unable to find answers to a couple of questions and would be grateful for some help.
When installing the system, will it recognise the disk arrangement and partition accordingly, or will I need to use the partitioning tools in the install to force my desired layout of all OS stuff on the SSD and all data storage on the big HDDs?
If the answer is that I must ignore the default setup and partion the disks to suit, what are the required partitions, where should each be placed and how big should each be?
The disk arrangement is 1x256GB SSD + 2x6TB HDDs mirrored by backplane hardware.
For quick repair in the event of boot failure, I intended to duplicate the SSD once the server has been configured and store the copy.
Ed Form