I believe that Javier is talking IOPS, not throughput. You need a storage system that is able to provide a high random read + write IOPS. That single drive is going to cause you issues when things get busy.
-Greg On 2012-11-01 12:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Javier, yes i see. > Storage for now is just a 3tb sata2 hdd, so i guess that write performance is > around 100 MB/s > > What do you think about that ? > > Thanks and regards, > Mike > > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 19:55:35 +0100 > Javier de Miguel Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> IMHO, fast storage is the main requirement for dovecot. >> >> >> >> El 01/11/2012, a las 16:20, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> escribió: >> >>> Hi All, first post here, nice to meet you :) >>> >>> I've been using dovecot + postfix + clamav + spamassassin for years but >>> always with few users. >>> >>> Now i must build a server for 1500 users, >>> they will use various email software (thunderbird, outlook, ..) >>> the webmail (i'm not sure if squirrelmail or roundcube) >>> and blackberry devices (with the BIS service). >>> >>> There will be around 1000 domains (virtual_domains) and postfix will read >>> its users and domains from mysql. >>> >>> Let's say that they will send and receive around 5000 emails per hour (10K >>> in total per hour). >>> >>> I was thinking to use karspersky server instead of clamav. >>> >>> I already have the hardware, it is a server with 4 physical cpu (Intel Xeon >>> E5504 @ 2.00GHz) and 24 gb of ram, >>> do you think it is enough ? >>> >>> >>> Thanks for supporting, >>> regards and have a nice day, >>> Mike
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