Bones - 9:39 am on Aug 15, 2009 (gmt 0)

I'd bet that a lot of PCIe connected Solid State Drives are being used to do a lot of the things described (and inferred) - knowing Google it's probably designed specifically for them.

Good thinking. I'd say that you were pretty much bang on the money with that, as it all ties up quite nicely:
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