So, you basically want to capture 9TB of network traffic (2x10GBx30Minutes). Does it have to be on a single machine? You may have better luck splitting the ta

So, you basically want to capture 9TB of network traffic (2x10GBx30Minutes). Does it have to be on a single machine? You may have better luck splitting the task across 2 machines. What NIC are you using? I would think I'd start with a test run of a 64bit linux build on a quad-core box with just "tcpdump -i en0 -s 2000 -nn -w text.cap" and see what you get.