12 Jan
2011
12 Jan
'11
7:53 p.m.
I just replaced my drives for Dovecot using Maildir format with a pair of Solid State Drives (SSD) in a raid 0 configuration. It's really really fast. Kind of expensive but it's like getting 20x the speed for 20x the price. I think the big gain is in the 0 seek time.
Here's what I bought.
Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148349
* 2.5"
* 256GB
* SATA III
* *Sequential Access - Read:* 355MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s) 265MB/sec (SATA
3Gb/s)
* *Sequential Access - Write:* 215MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s) 215MB/sec
(SATA 3Gb/s)
* *Power Consumption (Active):* 2.1W READ, 4.3W WRITE
* *Power Consumption (Idle):* 0.094W
Running it on an Asus motherboard that supports SATA III - 6 core AMD CPU and 16 gigs of ram. Might be slightly off topic but this server screams!