I am moving Imail from a box with websites and other stuff to a dedicated box with just Imail. I have no budget for hardware, but I do have a pile of stuff I can use. My question is what is the best way to configure the hardware I have.
Even on the current server with whole bunch of websites and other stuff, everything is running great. Therefore I am not trying to fix a problem, but rather pre-emtively move to something that will allow more growth. Hardware available to use: 1 Compaq 1850R 550 with Maxed memory 1 SMART-2DH RAID Card 2 SMART-2/P RAID Card Lots of hotswap 18Gig and 9Gig drives I value redundancy over speed. Therefore I will only consider a configuration that can survive a hard drive crash. The 1850 holds 4 drives, and I don't have any other external options. My thought is to have 2 RAID cards, each running RAID 1. I can use either 2 9gig or 2 18gig drives with each card, depending on my projected space requirements. If that makes sense, then the question is what to put on controller 1 and what to put on controller 2. Another theoretical issue to consider is that the 2DH has a larger cache. Thanks for any help, Paul Navarre To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
