If starting from scratch, what hardware and software would be ideal and under \$5k or \$10k for manipulating a data set of 10 to 20 million records without slowing to the crashing point or taking several hours to complete? Manipulation, if it matters, means multivariate regression (simple OLS with less than a dozen variables), basic graphs, and tables.
Soft and hardware for manipulating multi-million record data sets
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