> Yes, platter->head transfer speed could become a factor.
> You can get 16 gigabytes of cache on a RAID box from EMC.
> (for those reading this with tired eyes, I wrote "giga" above)
>
> Get some real hardware. Get the kind that kills you if it falls
> over.
Exactly. Get some real hardware.
You won't use IA32 type chips then, but rather 64bit chips from Sun,
Compaq or MIPS.
Being able to get at least 3 GB RAM in a box would be nice. Above
that, you want decent hardware.
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