This is something that has already been done. Look at http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/gms/ for more information. It is really mostly a matter of latency rather than bandwidth. You can have network latency that is smaller than the time that it takes your local disk to seek.
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This is something that has already been done. Look at http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/gms/ for more information. It is really mostly a matter of latency rather than bandwidth. You can have network latency that is smaller than the time that it takes your local disk to seek.