>Intel ATA66 motherboard If your motherboard only supports ATA66, you are going to cause a bottle neck reading and writing to the hard drive. The HD should be on a controller separate from other slower peripherals, such as a CD-ROM and ZIP drive.
>ATA 80GB hard drive I hope that is ATA 100 7200 RPM >I formatted the drive with a 12 GB system partition, 4 GB partition for the apps, 4 GB partition for the spool and the rest for the mailboxes. What about the page file? For better performance, it should be on its own partition. With only one hard drive, you are adding some bottle necks, although that may not affect you with your load. But it would be highly recommended to at least put in a second hard drive and mirror the partitions. For that you get better read write performance and protection against hard drive failure. Good luck. :-)> John Tolmachoff IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA 92835 www.reliancesoft.com Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
