I know there has been a lot of topic on this and I have read a lot of it but I still haven't found the answer I'm looking for.
background: I'm task with building a solarwinds server/db.
hardware: I'm given 4 disc to play with. 147gig 15k. 24gig of ram. quad core 2.6 GHz (honestly I think this is more than I need but I'm given this server for the task)
From what I have read, raid 10 is the way to go if you can afford it (the hardware is already there).
Now my question is, do I need to partition the log, database, and tempdb? I keep reading about putting all those on different disk but I only have 4 disc and I read that raid 10 is the way to go.
I'm thinking just do 2 partition. one for the OS and one for the rest (log, database, etc.)