I think the record is just under 1Billion hashes/sec on a couple of NVidia Tesla cards linked by SLI. You need a fairly expensive SAN to pull 1Billion MD5 hash

I think the record is just under 1Billion hashes/sec on a couple of NVidia Tesla cards linked by SLI. You need a fairly expensive SAN to pull 1Billion MD5 hashes/second just from the raw disk - nevermind the DB lookup.