Panther Mail hardware Questions

[buckster]

Hi,

I’m about to purchase and configure a G5 Xserve 2Ghz.

I plan to partition the internal 80Gb drive into 20Gb for system + 60Gb for email for 30 users.

I have a 250Gb external raid which will be used for file storage, home directories, etc.

I have 3 questions:

1. Is the internal 80Gb drive, when partitioned, fast enough to host mail accounts for 40 users?

2. Anybody see a problem with this setup?

3. Am I putting too many eggs in one Xserversince if it goes down I will lose ALL file AND mail services.

Many thanks,

b.

[Anonymous]

It’s a good question.

I have 10 users running and we are running on really old hardware. Win NT, 256MB RAM, 20 Gb HDD. It seems to be running fine right now.

A new XServe should be able to handle 30 users. But it would be nice to know from someone who has actually experienced running a mail server on a Xserve..

[AkiraK]

I handle a couple of different setups, but one of them is running an iMac DV (a 667 mHz G3) as a mail server with a 40 Gb HD and around 500 accounts without issue (they are imposing queue size limits).

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