Bulding a cluster on cheap hardware is really not a big issue, and I really recommend it for anyone planning to work seriously with clustering. On Windows Server 2003 you...

Guess I should have caught it since the C and D drive was mentioned, what caught my attention was the mentioning of clustering, which clearly does need shared storage in...

I often hear that the transaction log should be placed on different drives for performance reasons, and I tend to say that it's wrong. Typically, the SAN limitation is the...

Yes, the SQL Server Instance must depend on the disk for you filestream data.

Those can be on different LUNs, and in fact I would recommend it. If possible, I would even recommend them to be on different storage arrays or even different SAN...