Hi All,

I am just going through the initial research and motions phases and awaiting feedback on some rather important issues before I can confirm to myself that DNN is definitely for me and the way to invest 27hrs a day from the day forward when I know it's for me and what we need.

However I have a question about our PC Hard Drive Storage capacity, can any of you advise me what sort of capacity would easily hold all needed programs and the platform, additional modules and skins in time when I get that far and then actually expanding my companies portal?

It is likely to be a massive portal to be honest but will take to get it that far, was quoted by a local development company (Not using DNN) £28k all in for phase one, (Phase2 5months later launch) just to give you an idea of what we are talking about here not a small community hobby site etc.

Also my current setup is a master HD 80gb running Win XP Pro SP2, I have just added a slave HD 160gb and got it connected last night (Had it two weeks and no time to fit) but now I am looking at putting DNN to use, I need to know the above but also does DNN and the associated programs need to run on the HD that has the operating system installed on it, or can I place it on my new slave drive and not be hampered by anything?

I look forward to your replies.

Hi Leupold,

Thanks for the quick reply much appreciated

Well I shall setup everything on my new slave 160gb drive then to be safe purely as I know it is going to be a rather mammoth of a site to all intense and purposes.

However can you clarify for me if it is absolutely fine with no limitations for me to have ALL my DNN and portal development sat on this slave drive that doesn't actually have my OS on it, as that is on my original 80gb master drive.

I just want to be sure is all before I go ahead with the best possible infrastructure I have to hand currently.

Thanks.

Cheers for the above Leupold, as said I now know to go with my slave hard drive for the local storage, mainly because it is a massive website I will be trying to develop initially for the UK market aimed at both a consumer market but also business2business also. Hence I just know I will end up filling it up in no time, especially as I am learning everything DNN and with unfinished or shelved modules and documents / tutorials all over the place LOL!

The only thing that remains for me to find out is does DNN require that the insallation is on a hard drive that also has a persons pc's operating system residing on it? If that is the case then I will have to rethink but I hope I can just do all my DNN development and work on my slave (F:) drive and whenever I make changes etc and save files they are all just stored on my slave drive, instead of the master (C:) drive that I for e.g. chatting to you through at the moment?