MySQL Performance: Single table or multiple tables

Question

I have a 8 sets of data of about 30,000 rows for each set, the data is the same structure just for different languages.

The front end of the site will get relatively

Answer 1

I would go with single table design. Seek time, with proper index, should be exactly the same, no matter how "wide" table is.

Apart from performance issues, this will simplify design and relations with other tables (foreign keys etc).