[Dovecot] Hardware infrastructure for email system

[Brian Hayden]

> On 23/06/12 19:21, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> ALT storage, so for instance you could keep your indexes in a RAID10 of SSDs, recent email on a RAID10 of 10kRPM/15kRPM SAS drives, and older email can go on a load of 5k/7.2k SATA drives in RAID6, or on a NAS via NFS.
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>> far better solution but still about 2-3 times more $/performance than needed, and more complex than needed.
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>> But at least an improvement

Wojciech, how many users, does your installation serve? Not raw account numbers, but real users? The things you're saying sound mostly applicable to a small, easily-dictated env.

-Brian