Leonardo Boselli wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: > >> can build a generic PC clone and run Linux on it? A quad core AMD with 8 >> gigs of ram and a 500G hard drive will cost you under $400. >> > > won't work ... at least 3 disks, otherwise the bottleneck is the disk > interface. (here with a dual quad core and two disks the bottleneck is > in the disk performances, spamassassin helps a lot in this <GR> ) > >
A $70 Asus motherboard from NewEgg will support up to 6 SATA II drives connected to the motherboard. Set that up with Raid 0 and you have a screaming fast system. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
