Not even that - they say "We uploaded it into a traditional Microsoft SQL databa...

omh on March 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google serve...

Not even that - they say "We uploaded it into a traditional Microsoft SQL database on a 1TB drive". So it sounds like they were just using a single spindle. Purchasing an SSD for that SQL Server would probably have given comparable performance benefits.

vidarh on March 3, 2014 [–]

It's small enough you can get servers that can hold it in memory....