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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Streamlogic RAIDION drive arrays
To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 00:25:36 -0500 (CDT)
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>     I'm going to stick with hardware RAID on the news servers, but ccd
> should do just fine on our main mail server.  Raw capacity is what I'm
> aiming for there, not big TPS numbers or huge disk throughput.

Question:

Wouldn't you want RAID on your mail server, _instead?_ ...

For news, the RAID buys you a write back cache and nothing else.

For mail, it buys you reliability with customer data that is not
easily replaced like news is.

Just curious.

... JG