In article <10jibakfgjelbf0@corp.supernews.com>,
Grier <griergarrick@charter.net> wrote:
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I'm told that keeping the added info on a server is just too massive an 
undertaking on their part. Each machine???? That's alot of prefferences. 
Imagine 5mil Seti users wiht even 3 machines per user, Who's got the hard 
drive space? That's 45 mil pages at three pages per machine. Ouch!!!   

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No, it's not 45 million pages; it's 45 million database entries which
might take 1K each. That would require 45GB for the main db file, and
probably another 15GB for indexes. Well within the capability of modern
storage devices.


Gary

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