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++Horde Hardware Requirements
You can get a general sense for the hardware requirements of Horde by
looking at the ((Deployments)) page.
Here are some general guidelines for determining the number of hard
disk drives required for a given I/O load. This information is
probably more useful for email server administrators than Horde
administrators because Horde is generally not I/O bound.
+++Determining disk drives if you know the IOPS required
If you can make an estimate of how many I/O's Per Second (IOPS) you
need you can determine how many disks you'll need as RAID10 and how
many disks you'll need as RAID5.
Generally, a single disk drive can do this many IOPS per disk:
> 15k rpm: 180-210 IOPS
> 10k rpm: 130-150 IOPS
> 7200 rpm: 80-100 IOPS
> 5400 rpm: 50-80 IOPS
In a mirrored configuration:
> Disk IOPS = Read IOPS + (2 * Write IOPS)
In a parity (RAID5) configuration:
> Disk IOPS = Read IOPS + (4 * Write IOPS)
+++Example calculations
Now let's look at an example. If you estimate that you need to
support 40 Read IOPS (40 reads/sec) and 80 Write IOPS (80 writes/sec).
If you want to use a mirrored configuration of drives:
> Disk IOPS = Read IOPS + (2 * Write IOPS) = 40r/s + (2 * 80w/s) = 200
> Disk IOPS
>
> Using 7200 rpm drives, you need: 200 / 50 = 4 disk drives
> Using 10k rpm drives, you need: 200 / 130 = 2 disk drives (always round up)
If you want to use a parity (RAID5) coniguration of drives:
> Disk IOPS = Read IOPS + (4 * Write IOPS) = 40r/s + (4 * 80w/s) = 360
> Disk IOPS
>
> Using 7200 rpm drives, you need: 360 / 50 = 8 disk drives (always round up)
> Using 10k rpm drives, you need: 360 / 130 = 3 disk drives
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