--- Brad Bendily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I can't see you needing to spend the money on the
> kind of hardware you'd
> > need to achieve this.
>
> I'd have to agree with this statement.
>
> One bottleneck you didn't think of is the speed of
> your workstations.
> Your hard drives probably won't be able to write
> data any faster than
> the 100MB speed any way. So 1000MB may be useless.
> I'm not saying don't do it, but maybe you want to do
> some speed test on
> two of the machines first before you do all the
> machines?
I assumed that data coming over the wire would be
cached in RAM first. Wouldn't a big RAM drive help to
address this problem? I guess it would have to be a
_really_ big RAM drive, like GBs in size. Froogle says
1GB RAM is ~$269 - ~$465.
John
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