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This is still a common thing. Amazon has AWS Snowball [1] (up to 210 TB), Backblaze has Fireball [2] (96 TB), GCP has Transfer Appliance [3] (300 TB) and I'm su
by remram 3y ago
This is still a common thing. Amazon has AWS Snowball [1] (up to 210 TB), Backblaze has Fireball [2] (96 TB), GCP has Transfer Appliance [3] (300 TB) and I'm sure there are others.
They ship it to you, you fill it up (over S3 API for example) and send it back.
[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
[2]: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/features/fireball-data-migration https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/features/fireball-da...
[3]: https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/docs/4.0/overview https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/docs/4.0/overvie...
- Gud 3y agoI wonder if it's possible to start a moving company doing this? Buy a VW transporter and fill it up with SSDs...
- remram 3y agoMy gut reaction is that either people are moving data to another of their locations, in which case they have disks they can ship with regular transporters, or they are moving to the cloud, and they can use the cloud's transportation service. I might be wrong though!