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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Folks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Looking for a little feedback.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I've been evaluating MailScanner for a couple of weeks now and it seems pretty clear it's more than up to what we want, so I'm looking at replacing our existing relay hardware.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Given the MAQ says "<SPAN LANG="en-gb">A Dual Xeon with 2 GB of RAM and 15K SCSI disks can process up to 1,4 million of messages/day" and we accept and process maybe 30,000 on a busy week I think it's fair to say that pretty much any new server we buy will be more than sufficient.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My question is, broadly speaking which would be best to have more of, CPU, ram, or disk subsystem?</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm looking at the cheapest HP/Sun/Dell servers which tend to be SATA disks and slower dual-core CPUs but with plenty of memory slots.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TIA,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Paul</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Tahoma">Paul Hutchings<BR>
Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd.<BR>
Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378<BR>
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