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Originally Posted by mmorse  using a symbolic link for my backups directory currently-works fine
infact i have the store and index also symbolic linked to elseware
For storing the backups of the mailboxes? It's not like your calling it much, hopefully just writing to it  |
RAID5 writes are slow by comparison to other RAID options especially if there are large numbers of small files. For each write the parity calculation chews up time in overall I/O cost. The more you have to write and the smaller the files, the poorer your performance using any RAID that employs a parity operation on store (as part of the write operation)
Regards,
Lonny