Storage for MMORGP Game Server Hardware

[CulmObservor]

Hi,
I am just curious if a popular MMORGP game, the server hardware needs to have large storage capacity on host? Or data saving are always stored on remoted storage sever?

[Reedbeta]

It depends entirely on the game server architecture. I would imagine that all extremely large MMOGs keep their persistent data on a separate set of servers from the game servers, just for modularity and reliability reasons. However, some working set of data is likely kept locally for performance.