Hello all. Before my arrival at my current employer, our consultants
physically set up our MSSQL 7 server as follows:
drive c: contains the mssql engine
drive d: contains the transaction log
drive e: contains the data files

No filegroups were set up and the data files consist of only 1 large
physical file. Currently, our data file is >10GB. When I was trained on
the physical aspects of sqlserver, I was told to never create physical files
> 2048MB each. If I did, I could expect inefficient physical storage of
data and slower performance (due to the OS).

Our server has 2 RAID-5 arrays. Drive c: and e: are located on the first
array and drive d: on the second. We're running Windows 4.0 NT Server SP6
with NTFS.

Can someone comment on the use of 1 single large data file vs. more smaller
data files?