Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-19 Thread Phil Perry
On 19/09/2020 19:19, Chris Schanzle via CentOS wrote: On 9/17/20 4:25 PM, Phil Perry wrote: On 17/09/2020 13:35, Michael Schumacher wrote: Hello Phil, Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 7:40:24 PM, you wrote: PP> You can achieve this with a hybrid RAID1 by mixing SSDs and HDDs, and PP> marking

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 9/16/20 10:40 AM, Phil Perry wrote: You can achieve this with a hybrid RAID1 by mixing SSDs and HDDs, and marking the HDD members as --write-mostly, meaning most of the reads will come from the faster SSDs retaining much of the speed advantage, but you have the redundancy of both SSDs and

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-19 Thread Chris Schanzle via CentOS
On 9/17/20 4:25 PM, Phil Perry wrote: > On 17/09/2020 13:35, Michael Schumacher wrote: >> Hello Phil, >> >> Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 7:40:24 PM, you wrote: >> >> PP> You can achieve this with a hybrid RAID1 by mixing SSDs and HDDs, and >> PP> marking the HDD members as --write-mostly,

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-17 Thread Phil Perry
On 17/09/2020 13:35, Michael Schumacher wrote: Hello Phil, Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 7:40:24 PM, you wrote: PP> You can achieve this with a hybrid RAID1 by mixing SSDs and HDDs, and PP> marking the HDD members as --write-mostly, meaning most of the reads PP> will come from the faster SSDs

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-17 Thread Michael Schumacher
Hello Phil, Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 7:40:24 PM, you wrote: PP> You can achieve this with a hybrid RAID1 by mixing SSDs and HDDs, and PP> marking the HDD members as --write-mostly, meaning most of the reads PP> will come from the faster SSDs retaining much of the speed advantage, PP> but

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-16 Thread Phil Perry
On 16/09/2020 17:11, Michael Schumacher wrote: hi, I am planning to replace my old CentOS 6 mail server soon. Most details are quite obvious and do not need to be changed, but the old system was running on spinning discs and this is certainly not the best option for todays mail servers. With

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-16 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2020-09-16 11:26, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 12:12, Michael Schumacher < michael.schumac...@pamas.de> wrote: hi, I am planning to replace my old CentOS 6 mail server soon. Most details are quite obvious and do not need to be changed, but the old system was

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-16 Thread Radosław Piliszek
Hi Michael, RAID 1 is not uncommon with SSDs (be them SATA/SAS/NVMe). RAID 5/6 wear SSD drives more so are generally best avoided. You really need to monitor your SSDs health to help avoid failures. And obviously always have your backups... -yoctozepto On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 6:12 PM Michael

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-16 Thread Mark (Netbook)
list Subject: [CentOS] storage for mailserver hi, I am planning to replace my old CentOS 6 mail server soon. Most details are quite obvious and do not need to be changed, but the old system was running on spinning discs and this is certainly not the best option for todays mail servers

Re: [CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-16 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 12:12, Michael Schumacher < michael.schumac...@pamas.de> wrote: > hi, > > I am planning to replace my old CentOS 6 mail server soon. Most details > are quite obvious and do not need to be changed, but the old system > was running on spinning discs and this is certainly not

[CentOS] storage for mailserver

2020-09-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
hi, I am planning to replace my old CentOS 6 mail server soon. Most details are quite obvious and do not need to be changed, but the old system was running on spinning discs and this is certainly not the best option for todays mail servers. With spinning discs, HW-RAID6 was the way to go to