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I had a professor that made us answer questions about the bandwidth, latency, and reliability of a stationwagon loaded with hard drives. I never imagined I'd se

I had a professor that made us answer questions about the bandwidth, latency, and reliability of a stationwagon loaded with hard drives. I never imagined I'd see a practical example of that principal at work.

hervature 5y ago
Physical transportation of storage has always been a thing. Of course, over time, internet speeds increasing means it only makes since for larger amounts of storage. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
wiml 5y ago
Cloud providers like AWS will do data import/export via racks of drives in a shipping crate, if you have that much data. [1] (Or just a few drives in the mail if you're not moving petabytes.) On the other end of the enterpriseyness scale, but still an actual real-world use, there's SD cards attached to homing pigeons [2], in addition to numerous stunts or pranks ala RFC1149. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/#Snowball_Data_Transfer https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/#Snowball_Data_Transfer [2] https://www.denverpost.com/2007/06/22/homing-pigeons-get-down-to-business-ferrying-rafting-company-photos/ https://www.denverpost.com/2007/06/22/homing-pigeons-get-dow...