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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