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To be fair, you can easily carry around 2 TB in a single large-form external. Coupled with a general car to wall AC adaptor, you can travel around town with it.
by ROFISH 16y ago
To be fair, you can easily carry around 2 TB in a single large-form external. Coupled with a general car to wall AC adaptor, you can travel around town with it.
Not to mention the fact that since it's just a simple look-up table with lots of small entries, you could store it in the cloud and only get what you need via the same GSM connection.
- runjake 16y agoThat's a lot of data to be uploading to the cloud, but I read you. I wasn't saying it wasn't doable, but rather it's not just as easy as grabbing your laptop and a $15 phone, which is how it's being reported, for the most part.
- sp332 16y agoYou can send a USB or eSATA external drive to Amazon (up to 8TB) and they'll import the data into S3 for you. http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
- runjake 16y agoThis is great, I didn't know about this. It's important to note that you're looking at a cost of $100+ when you factor in Amazon's fees and shipping.