If you do research on Exchange performance, you will quickly realize that the number of spindles has a marked affect on the amount performance your raid set can provide. SATA has only been out for a year or so? I am not going to switch to SATA raid sets for high performance / highly available servers to save a few bucks....not until someone else does and has good results.
About a year ago, we compared performance numbers of a RAID of ATA storage vs RAID of FC storage and the performance curve as a function of the number of users for RAID of ATA storage was dramatically lower.
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If you do research on Exchange performance, you will quickly realize that the number of spindles has a marked affect on the amount performance your raid set can provide. SATA has only been out for a year or so? I am not going to switch to SATA raid sets for high performance / highly available servers to save a few bucks....not until someone else does and has good results. About a year ago, we compared performance numbers of a RAID of ATA storage vs RAID of FC storage and the performance curve as a function of the number of users for RAID of ATA storage was dramatically lower.
If you are using exchange, you can enable deleted item retention and get message deleted the day before.
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