Suggestions: 1) More spindles is best, so more small disks is better than fewer large ones 2) RAID-10 is best performance 3) Run bonnie++ on your proposed setups and benchmark performance using filesize typical for a mail message (16K typical) 4) Read this website before trusting user data to RAID 5: http://www.baarf.com
I have been very pleased with ZFS and would not choose any other filesystem after having worked with it for 3 months. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
