I used to regularly schlep hard drives in carry on luggage from Sydney to data centres in Singapore, London, San Francisco, and Dallas - just to spend half an h

I used to regularly schlep hard drives in carry on luggage from Sydney to data centres in Singapore, London, San Francisco, and Dallas - just to spend half an hour in the cold aisle with a screwdriver replacing RAID pairs in production web servers to update more images/pdfs than made sense over the bandwidth we had available to us in the late 90s, and to bring home similarly "too big to download" archival backups. Kept me comfortably in Gold Status with several airlines and the frequent flier miles allowed for a _lot_ of personal travel. (While I miss that a lot, I'm super glad my business isn't reliant on international air travel being a thing these days...)