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GFI MailArchiver – Server Recommendation
Hi,
I am currently trailing GFI MailArchiver and should it be successful I will be looking into what hardware I should purchase. Can anyone out there make a recommendation?
We have 150 mailboxes so I will be certainly using the 4 disk recommended option but I will have to surely implement RAID so that will be more. Then again how large should these disks be? What I mean is, for the processor and the memory that is fine but for the actual sizes I am not sure what to go for, is it 10GB for the first drive or 40GB for the first drive. Is it 20GB for the second drive or 100GB for the second drive and so on and so on...
Would be delighted to hear what the rest of you have or would recommend
Thanks in advance!
Declan D
P.S – Also I would be delighted to hear about your experiences in using this product.
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Hi Rick
Thanks for you assistance and advice!
We have already 332GB of PST files that we have to 'migrate' so that is already something. We have now 150 employees, its impossible that we will go anything higher that 250 in the next 2-3 years (famous last words)
So, if we have 100GB per year mail and 332GB of PST files already, that would make in theory over the next 5 years roughly 1TB of mail archieve. Now hard drives are cheap so purchasing a 2TB hard disk would not break the bank. This would give us 1TB of space to grow should there be more employees in the future.
We could even go for a 3TB hard disk.
Now its a case of finding out what goes on what disks and I am already a step closer...that question of course is for GFOI
Thanks for you assistance and advice!
We have already 332GB of PST files that we have to 'migrate' so that is already something. We have now 150 employees, its impossible that we will go anything higher that 250 in the next 2-3 years (famous last words)
So, if we have 100GB per year mail and 332GB of PST files already, that would make in theory over the next 5 years roughly 1TB of mail archieve. Now hard drives are cheap so purchasing a 2TB hard disk would not break the bank. This would give us 1TB of space to grow should there be more employees in the future.
We could even go for a 3TB hard disk.
Now its a case of finding out what goes on what disks and I am already a step closer...that question of course is for GFOI
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Date range : 1/02/2011 to 28/02/2011
Total (IN) Size Total (IN) Emails Total (OUT) Size Total (OUT) Emails
7,17 GBytes 25900 3,55 GBytes 16451
Date range : 1/01/2010 to 31/12/2010
Total (IN) Size Total (IN) Emails Total (OUT) Size Total (OUT) Emails
61,95 GBytes 260392 34,74 GBytes 290734