Len:
I thought the best configuration would be something like the following:

-- Raid 1 (2 drives):  OS and application
-- Raid 1 (2 drives):  Mailboxes
-- 1 drive:  spool directory

For a total of 5 SCSI drives.

We are in the process of porting our servers and I was under the
impression that would be the most desirable config.

True ? False?

Regards,
Kami

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>I think/thought that RAID5 had the fastest read rate.

And the slowest write rate. Mailboxes and mailqueue is 50:50 read:write,

best with RAID1 whereas RAID5 is better for database where it's 90:10 
read:write.

>If we dropped the logging to the RAID1 partition I noted below, you 
>think the mailboxes and such should still be RAID1 (or RAID0) also?

yes. RAID5 no where.

Len


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