[Dovecot] Dovecot and SSD

[Marc Perkel]

On 7/29/2010 2:16 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Bryan Vyhmeister put forth on 7/28/2010 6:05 PM:
>    
>> I'm considering setting up my own mailserver with Dovecot 2.0 (as soon
>> as it's out) and SSD. I'm debating whether it's worth it or not. I
>> have been running a mailserver with the Dovecot 1.1 train for a couple
>> of years and it's been flawless and amazing. I'm thinking about using
>> either FreeBSD 8.1 w/ZFS or OpenBSD 4.8-beta on a 64 GB or 80 GB SSD
>> (Corsair or Intel) using Dovecot 2.0 and mdbox. It seems like mdbox
>> would benefit the most from an SSD because reads would be extremely
>> fast while minimal writes (comparatively) take place due to the way
>> mdbox is structured. I guess what I'm saying is that even if the SSD
>> has average to slow write speeds the fast read speeds would make a big
>> difference in many operations. Any thoughts? Alternately, run either
>> option on a hard drive with indexes on fast flash memory. Anyone tried
>> something like that? Thank you.
>>      
>    

I've been wondering about SSD as well. I have about 1000 users many 
which have really large inboxes and I'm using maildir format. SDD has no 
seek time and I wonder if those drive heads are all over the place as 
people do searhes and such. So if anyone does this I'm interested to see 
how it works.