Being used to slow broadband links, I always compressed my tar files. You might have wait a half hour like the article, but you'd save an hour on the transfer.

Being used to slow broadband links, I always compressed my tar files. You might have wait a half hour like the article, but you'd save an hour on the transfer. And then I used my first gigabit local area network. It was was even more amazing using a 10gb SAN with SSD's. At that point the bottleneck seemed to be all the tiny files on disk (python venv's, for instance)