Author: John Timm
Date: 22:38:02 06/23/98
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On June 23, 1998 at 15:47:01, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>In my June 23, 1998 at 13:26:01 post:
>
>Oops! I meant to say 1.3 Million game database and not 130,000,000 games.
>Sorry.
>
>Note: If the creation of a new database, which contains a subset of the original
>database, is implemented merely as the creation of an index, then very little
>additional memory would be required to "store" the derived database.
>
>My first impression is that a 12 GByte hard drive would suffice. Does that
>sound right?
You would need much less hard
drive space than you estimate. For example, I have roughly 3.5 million games in
databases on a 2 GB hard drive, 18% of the drive is still free, and the drive
also stores some non-chess information. If, as you indicate,
you want to be a "power database user" starting with 1.3 million games (and
inevitably increasing thereafter), you should consider a system with at least 2
GB hard drive (4 GB would be better unless you are absolutely sure you will
never use your computer for non-database purposes), a 200 MHz or faster
processor (unless you have more tolerance than most people for searches that
last 10 minutes or more), and 64 MB of RAM (especially if you intend to use a
fast-searching program such as Fritz).
All of these numbers should be viewed as rough estimates because there are
many variables involved (for example, your intended applications and the quality
and format of your data).
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