"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway" - Andrew S. Tannenbaum But you are right, writing to an

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway" - Andrew S. Tannenbaum But you are right, writing to and reading from tape will take a long time. Modern tape drives can do ~500MB/s, so 15TB will still take ~9 hours. Though that may still be faster than a 1 gbit internet connection (depending on how far you must drive).