specs & platform for new server

[[ISO-8859-1] David Höhn]

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Sylvain Phaneuf wrote:
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| We don't want to spend more than 2,500 - 3,000 pounds if possible. We
| are thinking of:
| Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz with 1 MB L2 cache
| 2 GB DDR2 RAM (400 MHz DIMMS)
| RAID 1
| Intel Gigabit NIC
|
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for 35 000 to 50 000 messages that CPU Spec seems a bit too much in my
humble opinion. You can do well with only a single Xeon and put more
money into buying a very good RAID Controller.

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I can only recommend the IBM X-Series
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Most of the smaller Mailserver here run on xSeries 345 or 346 and we are
quite happy with that and the ServeRAID controllers.

Hope that helps
- -d

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