[Dovecot] Hardware infrastructure for email system

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat Jun 23 15:21:41 EEST 2012


>> Buy cheapest but largest SATA drive and use RAID1 (or RAID1+0) setup.
>
> oh no please do not recommend SATA crap with RAID1 and think
> it is faster than RAID6 - the additional writes doe snot matter
> if the whole disk-system is much faster and RAID1 has no benefit
> in performance

OK i would not recommend anything anymore. Normally my advices are for 
money.

>
> nobody will use SATA disks for high peformance servers in
> production - really nobody these days!
>
at least one person. and getting a bit of money helping other increasing 
performance of their setup. guess who.



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