Re: [exim] RAID level for mailstore

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Tom Brown
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] RAID level for mailstore


Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wonder what people think for a RAID level for their mail stores?
>
> I can only have RAID 1 or RAID 5 and i dont have many users ~500 so what
> do people think? This will be on a hardware RAID card but the RAID
> channel will not be dedicated to the mail store ie there will be another
> RAID disk sharing the channel.
>
> Just want to lay the spindles out 'correctly'
>
>
>

Get a couple seagate baracudda drives that are 750g+ and has the 32mb
buffer and use raid 1. It's both fast and secure assuming you need speed.

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