There's a reason I mentioned object inter-access times. To properly size storage you need to know your query distribution. "It has 16GBs of RAM and handles aro

There's a reason I mentioned object inter-access times. To properly size storage you need to know your query distribution. "It has 16GBs of RAM and handles around 5000 GBs worth of DBs. Due to a good RDBMS and intelligent caching and use of statistics, that server has a cache-hit ratio of 98%." This may be your query distribution but it plainly is not everyone's. "No amount of internet-argument can convince me that this goal is anything besides a pure waste of money." If Jim Gray's published work doesn't convince you there's not really much left to discuss.