... And if I was going to throw down $50K, why wouldn't you have chosen 0/1 vs. Raid5? It's faster, just requires more disks and is more expensive vs. Raid 5 for a given partition size. But with a $50K budget, that shouldn't be an issue unless you are storing a hell of a lot more mail than we are...(?)
:-) - Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Star > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] virus/spam problem > > > You must need a lot of disk for it to cost 50K for an Intel server. > External and Terabytes? > > Roland Sickenberger wrote: > > > Not around here. We once had a hard drive crash on our main server, the > > owner asked me what we could do to prevent it from happening again. I > > proposed a $50,000 raid 5 subsystem (about 1/4 of the cost of the entire > > server). He said "No, too much money". Less than a month the existing > > subsystem crashed again and the company still wouldn't replace it with a > > raid system! Those two incidents probably cost us 1/4 million in lost > > revenue. I finally got my raid subsystem when I bought a brand new > > server (had to sneak it in though). > > Someday we'll learn. > > Regards, > > Roland > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry > > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:35 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] virus/spam problem > > > > >Thanks for the info. I really should get the company to invest the > > >money in Declude, but with business the way it is right now I don't > > >think it would fly. > > > > That's understandable. A lot of companies buy Declude Virus after they > > get > > hit by a virus, rather than beforehand. It's a lot easier to get > > approval > > for a purchase that could have prevented a problem that already > > occurred, > > than to get approval for a purchase that could prevent a hypothetical > > problem. > > > > -Scott > > --- > > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > > > --- > > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > > (http://www.declude.com)] > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by http://www.intouchmi.com] > > --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by http://www.intouchmi.com] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
