> >Hey Len, how are you liking the combo you mentioned here. > > It looks very fast, we'll see next week, IMail site is 100K msgs inbound/day. > > >And what kind of raid level are you using there > > no, RAID at all, just moving the ATA overhead off the dumb ATA66 interface > on the mobo onto the chip of the TX2000, and picking up the ATA133 at same > time.
I was wondering what sort of performance boost some transparent mirroring and striping for speed would do. The transparent mirroring using something like the devices from Arcoide would be used for stability. http://www.arcoide.com/ Then something like a Promise card, or an Adaptec IDE raid card, could be used to stripe the mirrors for performance. > Imgate uses the "RAIM": "Rendundant Array of Inexpensive MX" :)) The above noted configuration would NOT be cheap, and is not really needed for a gateway where the IO load is already reduced by the lack of users. Obviously this is not something to just toy with. I would have to have a need to get the hardware investment made. > I would have preferred the Promise SX4000 with 256 MB cache, but Promise > won't provide docs to write the FreeBSD driver. Promise is also black listed by the anti-spam community. Last time I tried to contact them, all their replies bounced due to the fact that they use a known spammer for an ISP. --Eric
