[marginalia_nu]

The reverse index is 180 Gb, on an SSD. I do think using SSDs are a major part of why this is possible on consumer hardware. I'd need a lot of spinning rust to get the sub-100ms response times I can get it to when the index is warmed up.

Should be said I do wear through this SSD at a pretty alarming rate. I'm at 193 TBW on this disk since I started using it as an index less than a year ago.

I do have a bunch of mechanical drives I use for archiving and as intermediate working areas as well, but the index itself is on an SSD.

[Nextgrid]

Thanks - I'd be keen to try this at some point, if anything just for personal usage. I've got more than enough hardware CPU & RAM-wise, if all it takes is getting a few TBs worth of solid-state storage it seems like a no-brainer.