Bryan Vyhmeister put forth on 7/28/2010 6:05 PM: > I'm considering setting up my own mailserver with Dovecot 2.0 (as soon > as it's out) and SSD. I'm debating whether it's worth it or not. I > have been running a mailserver with the Dovecot 1.1 train for a couple > of years and it's been flawless and amazing. I'm thinking about using > either FreeBSD 8.1 w/ZFS or OpenBSD 4.8-beta on a 64 GB or 80 GB SSD > (Corsair or Intel) using Dovecot 2.0 and mdbox. It seems like mdbox > would benefit the most from an SSD because reads would be extremely > fast while minimal writes (comparatively) take place due to the way > mdbox is structured. I guess what I'm saying is that even if the SSD > has average to slow write speeds the fast read speeds would make a big > difference in many operations. Any thoughts? Alternately, run either > option on a hard drive with indexes on fast flash memory. Anyone tried > something like that? Thank you.
How many users? -- Stan
