That was why I mentioned SSDs - there are orders of latency magnitude between SSDs and spinning disk. I guess it fits the NSA's use-case though, where they hav

That was why I mentioned SSDs - there are orders of latency magnitude between SSDs and spinning disk. I guess it fits the NSA's use-case though, where they have ~thousands of analysts running complex queries but no external users, rather than ~billions of external users running well-defined queries.