[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Jan 13 18:01:17 EET 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 09:53 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> 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. 

You may find ramfs is even faster :)

I hope you have backups.

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dwmw2



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