Performance question RE: using Lightroom 2 on a local disk to access files on a server

Hello,
I am considering moving to a server-based platform for my digital images. That would allow me to go from linking together 18 external hard drives (500 GB to 1 TB) to accessing a single server to get to all of my information.
I currently have 4 Mac Pro towers with individually licensed copies of LR2. My "Master Catalog" has over 300,000 images in it that I am referencing.
Are there any performance restrictions to accessing, say, 12 terabytes (and growing daily) of images on a server from one catalog? Each of the 4 Mac Pros has a copy of the catalog that is synchronized between them. Right now, in our current setup, we have to swap the external drives between the individual towers in order to have everyone work simultaneously.
Is it possible to have 4 computers with individual catalogs running simultaneously on their local disks access the same server for reading/writing information?
I have heard a rumor that this type of constant read/write on a server is actually bad for it, and can cause corruption, but it seems to me as though this is the exact purpose of a server, so that idea strikes me as odd.
My biggest concern about all of this is that there will be some sort of limitation (performance or otherwise) in LR2 that will keep me from implementing this server-based setup.
Any thoughts?

bceugene wrote:
Yes, it makes it slower. That's what I was saying. I don't find it hard to find things spread across two catalogs instead of one. I'd much rather have two catalogs with 150k each than one with 300,000.
James, have you tried ACDSee Pro? It lists IPTC metadata in the traditional OS "details" mode, which in my experience is much faster, easier to use, and analyze than LR. I love LR, but if I need to get an overview of the metadata in a set of files, ACDSee is much more effective and efficient. If you save to xmp automatically from LR, ADCSee dynamically updates the new XMP acroos its whole catalog. It's allowed me to get a handle on metadata across large sets of files in ways that are not possible with LR.
And personnaly if I had 300K raw files I would not to additional burden them with XMP sidecar files and the constant auto write from LR. To me that would be worse than one large DB file!
Don

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