Federico,

The tables are ~1.7TB in total. If the tables are spread to many
harddisks, then the lookup will be faster, because with the several
thousands of disks accesses needed per burst (ca. 20k), a single
HD becomes the bottleneck for all but the slowest CPUs.

Sascha


On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:05:35AM +0200, Federico Battaglia wrote:
> Which hard drive for storage of tables is recommended to buy?
> The recommended size is 3TB or 4TB global?
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