Hardware requirements.

[timothyalangorman]

I have hardware requirement querry.

70 pop3 users that download their email to their lcoal machines.
50 imap users with fairly sizeable mail folders and 60 or perhaps more mb inboxes
What kind of CPU / RAM disk sub system would this require....

[timothyalangorman]

I suppose I'll have to do away with raid 5?

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Evaluation and Testing
• Intel/AMD 32-bit CPU 1.5 GHz
• 1 GB RAM
• 5 GB free disk space for software and logs
• Additional disk space for mail storage
Production environments
• Intel/AMD CPU 32-bit 2.0 GHZ+
• Minimum - 2 GB RAM
Recommend - 4 GB
• 10 GB free disk space for software and
logs (SATA or SCSI for performance, and
RAID/Mirroring for redundancy)
• Additional disk space for mail storage
General Requirements
• Firewall Configuration should be set to “No
firewall”, and the Security Enhanced Linux
(SELinux) should be disabled
• RAID-5 is not recommended for
installations with more than 100 accounts.

[mmorse]

RAID-5 is not recommended for installations with more than 100 accounts.

one of my boxes is self contained using raid 5 on a dell 2950
your just 20 users over the 100user suggested, in reality what % of the users are actually active at any given time?
most likley you'll be fine-you could always change later if you needed a performance boost