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So sneaker net was once someone walking around with burnt CD-ROM, then it was a box of drives, and now its a truck. Quite a dramatic illustration of the incre
by zeristor 10y ago
So sneaker net was once someone walking around with burnt CD-ROM, then it was a box of drives, and now its a truck.
Quite a dramatic illustration of the increase in data usage.
If one extrapolates next stop will be a train, and then a container ship full of hard drives.
- masklinn 10y ago> then it was a box of drives, and now its a truck. Between that was FEDEX-ing a NAS. That's pretty much the standard data-exchange format in astronomy, so you have a fast link and don't need to bother plugging a bunch of drives in, just plug the NAS to the power and network and off you go.
- zeristor 10y agoHmmm.... So when will The Universe be too small to data considering data use is exponential. I imagine there are lower upper limits, but this would be the upper upper limit.