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I recently found out that that is referred to as the sneakernet, and is actually still a preferred way to transfer a lot of data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

I recently found out that that is referred to as the sneakernet, and is actually still a preferred way to transfer a lot of data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

EarthLaunch 6y ago
AWS has a little-known service for trucks transporting 100PB of data in shipping containers: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
- amelius 6y ago
  "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum (circa 1989)
- wolco 6y ago
  What do their prices look like for 100 pb?
  - dexterdog 6y ago
    It's probably not bad compared to the monthly recurring you're about to get hit with for sitting in all of those bits.
  - jandrese 6y ago
    Certainly less than they would charge you for the bandwidth if you sent them over the wire.
- carlosf 6y ago
  Damn. I once spoke with a friend who helped a museum in Rio de Janeiro to migrate its backups using AWS Snowball, but thats a whole new level. https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
  - hendiatris 6y ago
    Which one? IMS?
- asib 6y ago
  I always wondered who would actually use this. Apparently a company called DigitalGlobe[0], which has a large collection of satellite images. [0]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3154898/this-company-is-using-amazon-snowmobile-to-transfer-petabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/3154898/this-company-is...
- mr_toad 6y ago
  For when your forklift migration needs a literal forklift.
- hyperpallium 6y ago
  In A Fire Upon the Deep, the Skroderiders' cargo was a one-time pad.
  - yetihehe 6y ago
    If you send someone several TB of random data on hard disk, you can now very securely send them several TB worth of encrypted data. It's many years of audio of reasonable quality, 1tb is about 72 days of raw 44.khz 16 bit stereo audio. With some speech codecs, that could be years of voice data. One time pad can be bigger than a notepad.
mattkrause 6y ago
My lab still does this (or, will do it when we’re finally allowed back in). We do a little bit of compression right on the instrument’s computer. After that, a briskly-walking postdoc can move a few terabytes a minute. The exact rate depends on whether they stop for coffee, but it always blows our internal 100 Mbps network out of the water.

EarthLaunch 6y ago

AWS has a little-known service for trucks transporting 100PB of data in shipping containers: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

amelius 6y ago
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum (circa 1989)
wolco 6y ago
What do their prices look like for 100 pb?
- dexterdog 6y ago
  It's probably not bad compared to the monthly recurring you're about to get hit with for sitting in all of those bits.
- jandrese 6y ago
  Certainly less than they would charge you for the bandwidth if you sent them over the wire.
carlosf 6y ago
Damn. I once spoke with a friend who helped a museum in Rio de Janeiro to migrate its backups using AWS Snowball, but thats a whole new level. https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
- hendiatris 6y ago
  Which one? IMS?
asib 6y ago
I always wondered who would actually use this. Apparently a company called DigitalGlobe[0], which has a large collection of satellite images. [0]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3154898/this-company-is-using-amazon-snowmobile-to-transfer-petabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/3154898/this-company-is...
mr_toad 6y ago
For when your forklift migration needs a literal forklift.
hyperpallium 6y ago
In A Fire Upon the Deep, the Skroderiders' cargo was a one-time pad.
- yetihehe 6y ago
  If you send someone several TB of random data on hard disk, you can now very securely send them several TB worth of encrypted data. It's many years of audio of reasonable quality, 1tb is about 72 days of raw 44.khz 16 bit stereo audio. With some speech codecs, that could be years of voice data. One time pad can be bigger than a notepad.

mattkrause 6y ago

My lab still does this (or, will do it when we’re finally allowed back in). We do a little bit of compression right on the instrument’s computer. After that, a briskly-walking postdoc can move a few terabytes a minute. The exact rate depends on whether they stop for coffee, but it always blows our internal 100 Mbps network out of the water.