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Subject: Re: 6 man tablebase question

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 15:58:21 02/08/02

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On February 08, 2002 at 16:31:36, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On February 08, 2002 at 16:06:25, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>When are the 6 man tablebases expected to be completed? And what will their
>>approximate size be?
>>
>>It would be nice to have them once they are complete, but if it means having to
>>buy half a dozen 100GB hard drives, I might rethink that decision :)
>>
>>Russell
>
>
>Now that 160GB drives are available, the 600GB you hypothesize (sorry, I don't
>recall the real number) would only take up 4 of them, and you'd even have space
>left over!
>
>;-)

Experts estimate about 1 Terabyte (=1000 GB). I think, we will have to wait 3
years or longer before all will be generated.


Helmut



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