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For terabyte-scale data it might make sense to send it along with a person, but for larger amounts there are definitely services to help handle the process. He
by mhink 3y ago
For terabyte-scale data it might make sense to send it along with a person, but for larger amounts there are definitely services to help handle the process.
He mentioned AWS Snowmobile in the video, but they also have a lower-volume equivalent: AWS Snowball [1]. It's basically just a suitcase-sized device that you plug in, upload data to, and ship to the destination. They have some really nice features to help make the process smooth. But yeah, at its core the idea really is "pack up a lot of hard drives and have it shipped to the destination".
1: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
- dr_orpheus 3y agoAlso reminds me of the XKCD What-if: "When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx" https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
- GauntletWizard 3y agoWhat-ifs really need to be dated. Some of those assumptions are enough to date it; 160tb/kg is kind of laughable now, when talking about micro SD cards. Reasonably guessable using https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/interactive_latency.html https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...