12 Jan
2011
12 Jan
'11
9:15 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.
I thought about doing this on my email server since its troubles are mostly disk I/O saturation but I was concerned about reliability. Have heard that after so many read/writes SSD will go bad. There are an awful lot of read/writes on an email server.
I will be interested to hear how it stands up for you.