These IT auditors work for a state government, and though the group is small, they can generate some very big files, according to a pilot fish on the scene.

“And in the normal course of operations we need to query against those files, download them and analyze them,” says fish. “And given the less-than-stellar computers we have access to, this can be a tedious process.

“We decided to take matters into our own hands and spec out a dedicated server to handle all the heavy lifting for us, both processing and storage. We determined that the best deal would be to take a stock machine and add a RAID array, max out the memory, and really beef it up.”

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