I've run a SATA setup in one location for about 3 years now and a SAS setup for about a year now. We've run RAID 5 on both setups and the servers have over 1000 domains each. I've never seen any performance hits on the systems at all. It seems like the only thing that helps performance of either of the systems were the type of CPU's I had. The newer machine with 2 x dual core XEON CPU's seems to process anything you throw at it with no issues at all. The entire toaster install only took 15 minutes on that machine.
Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Koch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [toaster] toaster RAID setup Has anyone successfully setup Bill's toaster with SATA RAID? A year or two ago we setup a toaster with a two drive 3ware IDE RAID mirroring setup and the performance was awful. Maybe it was because we didn't have write caching enabled on the RAID controller or should have tweaked the kernel settings. I looked at Bill's proposed setup for an ISP but we're just trying to do this for a single server setup. The only solution we've been able to come up with in the past is to have a single small drive for booting, /var/qmail and /var/logs and run SATA RAID for /home/vpopmail and everything else. But we'd really like to have RAID running for the qmail queue since that's what beats the hell out of a hard disk. Any recommendations or experiences anyone? Best Regards, Jeff Koch
