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Shipping data is common, both to save money and for greater speed. AWS has their import/export tool that does just this: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ ht
by latch 16y ago
Shipping data is common, both to save money and for greater speed.
AWS has their import/export tool that does just this:
http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
There's also the story of the carrier pigeon which was faster than broadband in South Africa
http://www.physorg.com/news171883994.html http://www.physorg.com/news171883994.html
Fill a 737 with bluray, fly it from NY to LA, and you'll reach 37,000 Gbit/s.
It's called Sneakernet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
- sid0 16y agoMy networks prof said in his first lecture that if you don't care about latency, shipping a hard drive is always cheaper.
- Lagged2Death 16y agoIt is likely that this will be true for some given quantity of data for a long time. But in Canada, the quantity of data required to make the mail look like a good option has just plummeted. It may be cheaper to mail a DVD+R for as little as 1GB of data. That's just not very much data anymore. Google offers Gmail users more storage than that for free.
- masklinn 16y agoWell yeah, but the comparisons here are not just shipping the drive. The original one is shipping an SSD and binning it at the destination, and this one is taking the plane with your drives and binning them when you're done.
- alexophile 16y agoWhen I was interviewing a founder at SpiderOak, he mentioned that they did this for some bigger clients (complete with zero-knowledge encryption) to get them up and running faster.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoSneakernet bandwidth is great, true, but oh! The latency!