Not to be "nit picking" but...
Actually RAID 1 + 0 is the best solution.
Mirroring -> Striping provides much better reliability by allowing the loss
Chris
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Original Message
From: "Len Conrad"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Recommendations for offering free e-mail?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:53:30 +0100
>
>>I have a Dual PentiumIII 733, with 100 gigs Raid 5,
>
>RAID5 is the wrong RAID for mail I/O. It's the slowest RAID, esp when
>writing 100's of 1000's of smallish files to the mailq, maillog file,
>and mailboxes.
>
>Switch to RAID 0 + 1, striping across disks for speed and mirrored
>disks for redundancy.
>
>Use one disk channel(s) for the mailbox storage and another disk
>channel for the mailq/maillog actvity. And use 128 megs on-board disk
cache.
>
>Len
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