Performance in a 7 TB database.

Hi,

I have a customer who wants a database solution for a 7 TB database.
Insert will be the main action in the database.

There are some case studies with detail information about performance
and hardware solution on this database size?
What are the minimum hardware requirements for this kind of database?

Thanks is advance,
Nuno
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