Insane hardware

Haha. I love this little snippet from the technology report on CCP games and how they have recently addressed some data transfer issues with their Eve SciFi online game:

EVE Online's underlying storage bottleneck is a classic problem with Online Transaction Processing. 10,000+ users accessing account information, warping across the galaxy, buying goods from black-market free-lance smugglers and upgrading their mining frigates to assault cruisers all at the same time puts immense stress on disk-based storage.