In order to properly answer you question, we would have to know how many users you have or plan on having, and your inbound/outbound mail utilization. If you have 20 users sending/receiving 10,000 e-mails a day, then disks don't matter. CPU isn't an issue. If you plan on having 2,000 users sending/receiving 100,000 e-mails a day, then the advice givin to point is accurate.
Regards, Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Imail Admin Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 4:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] CPU versus RAM versus drive space If you built a new mail server today, for a fixed budget, what would be your priority on the following choices: multiple CPUs higher CPU speed more RAM faster RAM more disk space faster disk drives Our company went through this process a couple of years ago, but it seems to me that choices have changed, and that the requirements might be different. For example, would dual Xeons be that much better than a single P4 at a higher frequency? Also, I wonder whether the answer would be different for SmarterMail? We're using IMail, but I'm just curious if the same logic would apply to SmarterMail? Ben BC Web 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/ 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/
