[Asterisk-Users] RAID affecting X100P performance...

[Scott Laird]

On Jul 21, 2004, at 4:53 PM, Joshua McClintock wrote:
> Our production environment is using a 4 port 3ware 8500 series card 
> with
> 2 drives (mirrored) on the pstn (2 t1 cards) machine and an 8 port 
> 3ware
> 8500 series with 8 drives (raid5) on the pbx/vm machine.
>
> Flawless so far.

Why so many drives for VM?  A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests 
that you should be able to fit around 24 hours' worth of voice mail per 
GB.  Unless you're recording all of your incoming and outgoing calls, 
it sounds like you're *swimming* in disk space.  Not that that's a bad 
thing, but it sounds kind of excessive.


Scott