Agreed, raid 5 is fairly expensive in parity calculations anyway. If you need the extra performance for mailboxes I would say 0+1 (len.. Do you have a reason against 0+1 ?) The 9s definately two raid1's And spread out that IO load as Len pointed out
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed Jun 16 16:57:34 2004 Subject: [IMGate] Re: Disk partitions. the 3 main types of disk i/o for mail are logging, mailqueue, and mailbox, so spread those across separate controllers and disks. no raid5, just raid1 Len
