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		api on July 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up abo... The big data one is outstanding. If you don't have more data than can fit on a reasonably large hard drive, you do not have big data and you are likely able to process it faster and cheaper on one system. Today that threshold would be around 10TiB.

julienfr112 on July 26, 2020 [–]

It take hours to read a whole 10TiB hard drive. Depending on use cases, it can be unacceptable.

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