Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira antivirus + postgrey and some small auxiliary services. We have approx 2500 users / mailboxes and

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 14/09/06 16:51 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: | Hello | | Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira | antivirus + postgrey | and some small

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Bonnet
Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet

SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread White Hat
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread DAve
Frank Bonnet wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it I have yet to have a SATA drive last

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Derek Ragona
SATA is still quite limited. To go beyond those limits use SAS, but SAS costs even more than SCSI and is brand new technology. -Derek At 10:46 AM 9/14/2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: SATA is still quite limited. To go beyond those limits use SAS, but SAS costs even more than SCSI and is brand new technology. Get a 12 or 16 or 24 port Areca card and have a few hot spares and you will see SATA fly for less money than

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Greg Groth
On 9/14/2006 10:32 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 14/09/06 16:51 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: | Hello | | Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s +

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:45:49 -0500 Greg Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any of the major server brands more FreeBSD friendly than others? I'm looking to purchase a server for some web apps. Our current config is running on a 6 year old Dell PowerEdge machine with SCSI RAID 5,

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:56:24AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:45:49 -0500 Greg Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any of the major server brands more FreeBSD friendly than others? I'm looking to purchase a server for some web apps. Our current config

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Skylar Thompson
Bill Moran wrote: Has anyone every verified whether or not SATA has the problems that plagued ATA? Such as crappy quality and lying caches? Personally, I still demand SCSI on production servers because it still seems as if: a) The performance is still better b) The reliability is still

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
| Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira | antivirus + postgrey | and some small auxiliary services. Your server is good enough to