Jeremy Stanley wrote:
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> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
<interesting snippage>
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> But this is a religious argument that has been hashed out repeatedly on
> many mailing lists I've been on in past years. The RAID-1 crowd and the
> RAID-5 crowd never gain converts as neither seems to be able to produce
> controlled benchmarks convincing enough to sway the other. My suggestion
> is to test, test, test under your environment or the best approximation
> you can fabricate, and pick what works best for you.
Out of interest, and not wishing to start another religious war, what
would people use for simple out bound servers ?
The need for a decent storage (speed / reliability) is obvious for a
singular mail server. What about outbound only servers ?
The reason I ask is that I am invloved with a few projects that send
personalised emails (no not spam). Queue importance is not critical.
We looked at the cost of hardware raid (0+1 or 5) and IDE vs SCSI.
IN the end the simplest solution was multiple (and simple) IDE based
servers - as going SCSI or RAID would only appear to offer parity in the
cost vs performance ratio compared to IDE. This may be due to the UK
having higher component and rack costs than the US, I am not sure.
I would be interested what people on the list have to say, as I am sure
many have been here before.
Greg Cope
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> Jeremy Stanley, Information Security Specialist Foveon Corporation
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