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...; 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148349> * 2.5" * 256GB * SATA III * *Sequential Access - Read:* 355MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s) 265MB/sec (SATA 3Gb/s) * *Sequential Access - Write:* 215MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s) 215MB/sec (SATA 3Gb/s) * *Power Consumption (Active):* 2.1W READ, 4.3W WRITE * *Power Consumption (Idle):* 0.094W Running it on an Asus motherboard that supports SATA III - 6 core AMD CPU and 16 gigs of ram. Might be slightly off topic but this server screams!

SSD drives are very fast but expensive. So I have a crude idea that I'd like to see. May not be practical but would like to get some thoughts on it. Some new SSDs use SATA 3 (6gb/sec) with 355/mb/sec read speeds and 215MB/sec write. Put these in raid 0 and it screams! Can you imagine how fast that would be? What would be nice is if new email were on faster drives with old email being migrated to larger mechanical cheaper storage. Perhaps messages over a month old? From dovecot's perspective it would sort of...