What's Going on with BRs?!!!

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(12-28-2012, 03:44 AM)Pluton Wrote: Battle Reports are between 1KB and 2KB when compressed and from 4KB to 8KB when decompressed.

There are millions of battle reports. How do you store them?

Hmm... I guess it depends how many millions... If it's just 1 million, that would be easy; 1-2 KB per BR becomes 1-2 GB total. Even if it's 100 million, you'd still be talking only 100-200 GB, which doesn't seem so bad for a modern hard drive. It's only when you get into the billions of BRs that things start to look real bad. [Hope this doesn't sound ungrateful, I really do appreciate you putting all the effort into creating and maintaining this forum, Pluton. I'm just going off my general knowledge of what seems big/not big for computer storage.]

Another question, if you don't mind... Does sols9 automatically mine ClapAlong's servers for Batheo BRs everyday. Or only when we post BR links to this forum? Because I'm thinking, if you only mined for BRs that someone took the time to post here, it would cut down the storage space needed by well over an order of magnitude.