Is the entire Straight Dope archive, including the message board posts, stored on one hard drive? My question is just how many gigabytes does it all take up.
More than 2 GB. But it’s not the size of the message board, it’s how you use it!
So it’s all in a CPU somewhere? Wow. I had visions of some gigantic mainframe stored in a basement…
Nope, one single server, as far as I know. 2 GB’s isn’t even that much, when you think of it. We’ve got loads of room left on that hard drive. 
Pity (until recently), you didn’t have spare ham§ster power.
A big hard disk is not the be all and end all y’know.
Oh yeah…How many wheels you got running next to the server? 
And, a good thing about hamsters is that they breed like…well…hamsters! Jerry’s got a whole army of the little doped-up guys ready to work for him, bred just for the purpose! And who said genetic engineering couldn’t benefit mankind? 