I'm pleased to announce The Mail Archive has completed migration to our 8th generation of hardware. The improved hardware helps the service perform well under increasing popularity. It is also a good idea to replace moving parts such as hard disk drives every few years for reliability reasons. Finally, a new platform is a great excuse for software spring cleaning and bumping various components up to the latest version. It has been about two and a half years since the last major hardware upgrade.
The Mail Archive is now devoting nearly a billion transistors, 300 billion capacitors, and 100 trillion magnetic dipoles towards storing messages. Email flows through wires that are ten times smaller than the wavelength of blue light. Speaking of blue light, we sadly have a significant decline in the number of blinking blue lights on the chassis. Generation 7 hardware was the high water mark in that regard. All this computational horsepower should keep the service snappy and responsive for quite a while. So far we're delighted with the new hardware. As always please report any problems or issues, and thank you for using the service. http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#equipment -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
