Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Raid Controller

[Matt]

Sounds like a potential convert :) Here's something else that people should consider... The outer edge of a platter offers the best throughput by far.  If you have say a 80 GB SATA drive, you can partition just 20 GB per drive in order to capture the best performance (considering that no single drive/function on a gateway should need any more than that).  Under these conditions, you could get potentially much better performance than most SCSI drives can offer unless you were buying the largest and most expensive SCSI drives and using the same technique, which most of us would find prohibitive. ZipZoomFly.com sells the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380013AS 80GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer for $82 with free shipping.  I could throw 6 of these in a box for next to nothing (figuratively).  Western Digital is now also selling 10K SATA drives under their Raptor brand using spindle sizes mostly seen in SCSI offerings, but I'm not a big fan of their company, though they definitely outperform Seagate.     http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductList.jsp?ThirdCategoryCode=011016 I'm actually planning on just going with single dedicated disks to start (small partitions) and when I need the performance boost, I will break it out into RAID 1.  That should allow 3ware a little more time for their offering to mature. Can anyone help rate the incremental performance boost of having the page file on a separate drive, how about the log's?  I don't figure the server should be doing much with the page file if it has enough memory and is dedicated to E-mail processing.  I'm definitely going to put the OS on one and the spool on another, but I'm unsure about how useful the other two are. Matt Sanford Whiteman wrote: The card that Keith pointed out comes with a default 128 MB and goes up to 1 GB. Pretty cool, might be worth a demo...:)...but the price of the 9500S-8, their closest SATA offering, doesn't beat our preferred LSI card. (IM0, the savings on the drives themselves is matched by the cost of live testing, new hot-plug enclosures, etc. If the card had a world-beating price, I'd be more attracted.) I'm sure you'll be satisfied for a brand-new installation, as 3ware has a very good reputation. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Release/ --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================