Re: email server - how to

[Dave Watkins <debianisp@snorks.dyndns.org>]

Andreas John wrote:

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>> Best to use 2U machines with the maximum number of disks IMHO.  A 2U
>> machine should be able to have 5 disks.
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> I say: 9 Disks without problems. e.g.  pcicase
> http://www.pcicase.de/catalog/produktweb/IPC-C2-X/IPC-C2D.htm
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The question is with that many disks is a single raid 5 going to be
enough redundancy... Thats an awful lot of data to loose if 2 drives
fail. May be worth thinking about RAID6 or a couple of RAID5 arrays striped