• Depends. If you create the index on the partition scheme, it will be partitioned like the table and stored across the three filegroups. If you create the index on a filegroup, it's not partitioned and is stored entirely in that filegroup.

    Basically, it's stored where ever the ON clause of the create index specifies.

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