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Old 03-07-2006, 01:39 PM  
eamedia
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Originally Posted by RawAlex
My bet would be that it is a special board made for google specifically for search or something... maybe the type of board used in their server clusters. It would seem to be specially made to communicate quickly to two sides of the world (one lan card to the cluster, one lan card to the world, perhaps) and the sata drives in a raid 0 raid 1 would likely be good for storing short term results / caching future pages. Tons of ram, tons of processing...

Could also be a "googlebot" board.

Alex
yes... some on another board they were thinking that if the google bot software is on the drives, that might be worth more than the hardware


i think i might list one ram stick on ebay and see if i get knock on the door from the google squad
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