It would also be very interesting to see how much cheaper and more efficient it would be to use a server built today using a low-power 1U blade with a pair of high-end SSDs in RAID0 (or maybe 4 in RAID10).<p>That iSCSI SAN was probably bloody expensive, yet a pair of SSDs today which are orders of magnitude cheaper would run circles around it. OP is storing text documents, so doesn&#x27;t need a huge disk.