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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:21:52 -0500
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mail Storage Reccomendations (3Ware vs Adaptec vs ....)
Message-ID:  <3E6CAD90.8080701@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <002201c2e703$cabdcdf0$aa8ffea9@abyss>
References:  <002201c2e703$cabdcdf0$aa8ffea9@abyss>

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Troy Settle wrote:

> My current mail storage server is a C600 w/512MB and ~54GB of RAID5
> (amr0, Series 466).  The machine (and drives) are coming up on 3 years
> of age, and I'm ready to replace it.  Performance has been acceptable,
> but not stellar.

That may well be due to using RAID-5, which has poor write performance. 
  Try a RAID-10 config instead, although without more info, it's hard to 
say what the bottleneck really is...

-Chuck



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