a total waste of money. Why do you think the Imail server will need such computing power?Dual Processor Intel Xeon, 2.8GHz w/512K Cache 512MB DDR,200MHZ,2X256MB DIMMS
(these three configured RAID5; D:36GB for the spool and mailboxes)
RAID5 is slow on writing. Use Raid 1.
Hardware RAID with 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 2 Internal Channels
why not 256 Mb?
Dual Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Server Adapters
Your mail traffic is 1 Gbit/sec?
Depends on what your traffic is. I bet you are going tell us this box will absolutely have to handle .... 2000 msgs/day and 500 accounts. :))Is that the best? Or if not, what is ideal?
Adaptec 2400A and 2 RAID1 pairs of 7200 RPM drives in will do the job and save you many, many $000's. and alternative would be two Promise SX4000's, each with 256 Mb cache.
If you have really a busy mailbox server, then offload the AV to a dedicated AV box and the anti-abuse to an MX gateway like IMGate. This will be cheaper and have more reliability and throughput, but I know wasting big $$$$ on one SPOF Godzilla box is lotsa more fun. You also get to compete credibly in "mine is bigger than yours" contests :))
Len
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