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I rarely use them but still see them used a fair amount being overnighted/couriered as a fail safe/easy way to share large amounts of data.

• Kye 4y ago
  Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
  • cbm-vic-20 4y ago
    Amazon has a dedicated shipping container service for moving large amounts of data into / out of AWS. Anyone ever seen/used one of these? https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
    • andylynch 4y ago
      This recent report from Ukraine is quite impressive: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ukraine-awards-microsoft-and-aws-peace-prize-for-cloud-services-digital-support/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ukraine-awards-mi...
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