[OSM-dev] The Rails Port: Populating the database

[Roland Olbricht]

> I don't have the exact times to hand, but it seems reasonable to me.

Thank you. Then I will just buy better hardware instead of searching for
a possibly weird error.

> Terabyte drives are fairly affordable :-)

The question is: does a database run at a reasonable speed with an
external (USB?) disk. I'm doubtful about that. I think I will just work
with a smaller extract for the moment.

Cheers,

Roland