David We used four partitions across 3 disk on a 2650.
1. OS (RAID1) 2. Imail (RAID1) 3. Users POP3 (RAID1) 4. Imail spool - stripped At least that's how I think we did it!!! :) David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sullivan Sent: 28 August 2003 17:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Imail Drive/Partitions I have a situation with available hard drives and Imail partitioning that I'm unsure of. (I am VERY familiar with the optimum setup, so please keep reading). I have 3x 15k RPM 18G hot swap drives on 64M RAID card. This Dell 2650 will hold 2 more but NO money in budget for any more. This machine will be used as a gateway as Store and Forward only to Exchange so there will be no user mailboxes to speak of. It will be doing A/V and Anti-Spam and handle about 150-200k messages per day. Now, I can't figure out the best setup for the drives. I don't want to make them all 3 a RAID 5 set because I don't want the spool on RAID 5. It would be a waste to use each drive independently and lose any redundancy. So, the only setup I see is RAID 0 and a single drive. Should I put the OS/Page File/Programs on RAID 0 and the spool on the single drive? Or just put everything on the RAID 0 pair since storage space won't be that much of an issue? Or put the OS/Paging on single drive and spool/programs on the RAID 0? (Of course all in separate partitions). I just can't figure out the best scenario. Any input greatly appreciated. Thanks -- Best regards, David mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
