From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 10 7:21:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1832337B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop015.verizon.net (pop015pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BDD43FA3 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:21:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.42.236]) by pop015.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030310152154.WSPN14460.pop015.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:21:54 -0600 Message-ID: <3E6CAD90.8080701@mac.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:21:52 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Storage Reccomendations (3Ware vs Adaptec vs ....) References: <002201c2e703$cabdcdf0$aa8ffea9@abyss> In-Reply-To: <002201c2e703$cabdcdf0$aa8ffea9@abyss> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop015.verizon.net from [129.44.42.236] at Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:21:54 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Troy Settle wrote: > My current mail storage server is a C600 w/512MB and ~54GB of RAID5 > (amr0, Series 466). The machine (and drives) are coming up on 3 years > of age, and I'm ready to replace it. Performance has been acceptable, > but not stellar. That may well be due to using RAID-5, which has poor write performance. Try a RAID-10 config instead, although without more info, it's hard to say what the bottleneck really is... -Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message