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Subject: Re: Speed is the issue ... when?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:45:23 01/30/04

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On January 30, 2004 at 02:48:52, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>Speed only becomes an issue when a specific endgame becomes 'relevant'.
>
>Longer term, it would be good to have more dynamic storage schemes which only
>promote EGTs to hard disc 'Just In Time' before they're needed.
>
>In round figures, I estimate 1.5TBytes for the 3-to-6-man DTM EGTs, but only
>0.6TBytes for the DTZ and EdZ50Z EGTs (from which the DTZ50 EGTs can be
>derived).
>
>In either case, I anticipate some robotic DVD-handler would be useful.
>
>g


The problem is, what happens on (say) a KRPP vs KR.  Potentially you will need
KR** vs KR for all the promotions.  When you reach that position, your search
will simply end, because there's no way you will copy all the KR**KR files from
DVD to the hard disk while a search is in progress.



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