Well they say "machines" so it might be much more than 32GB. (Though on disk it might be strongly compressed.) And on HDDs, a few seeks is actually slower than a network round-trip.
Re:Kite: Thoughts on Security
by Zombieball on Thursday April 21, 2016 @06:24PM
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Uncompressed might indeed eat up tons of disk space.
Admittedly I was thinking of an SSD + some caching in RAM when thinking of this timing. But I was always under the impression an HDD seek would be on the order of 10's of ms? I'd assume a query to a cloud service would be on the order of 100-200ms.
I would imagine a smooth update mechanism could allow you to update file indexes without loosing too much agility on feature development but come with huge security gains.