>I Recently upgraded a mail server that was having problems with both >WebMessaging and SMTP to Raid 5.
not the best RAID for mailbox and mailqueue, due to it slow writing speed. RAID1 mirror is faster when writing. > Also added a 4th drive for swap and >spool. This made a huge difference in both performance and stability of >the machine. great to have this confirmed. I always advise separate partitions (best is separate contorollers and disks) for mailbox, queue, and swap but nobody has actually come back and said they did and got what results. Len www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways 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/
