Thank you, Wynn, agreed. I was just so fed up with people on both sides throwing around numbers that seemed to have absolutely no grounding in fact, so I decided to walk through figuring out the required size myself. It's all academic though, since in the end it doesn't really matter why only that they are.

Except for this idea that they're using the old hardware for the new servers, which would be impossible if they brought 1.x back up (which is the very option we are discussing), concurrently with the beta tests. Ok, not impossible, but prohibitively ridiculous.