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If you have the data on 32GB micro SD cards (at about three to the gram), you're at 96TB/kg, or 2.88 exabytes/747. On a ten-hour trip, that's 80TB/s. It wouldn'
by stan_rogers 14y ago
If you have the data on 32GB micro SD cards (at about three to the gram), you're at 96TB/kg, or 2.88 exabytes/747. On a ten-hour trip, that's 80TB/s. It wouldn't be at all practical to ship 'em loose, and finding and using the data you want from the "stream" would be a real SOB, but that's a lot of raw throughput with current, non-exotic tech.
- mhandley 14y agoOf course it's only the end-to-end throughput that counts. It might take quite a while to load the data onto all those micro-SDHC cards and then extract it again at the destination, and you have to add time that to the ten-hour flight time. Not to mention the health-care bill for driving your sysadmin insane.
- stan_rogers 14y agoMy point, really, was that even with inefficient and inappropriate packaging, the available raw transfer rate is already huge. It's just a matter of packaging what already exists into "data cargo containers" sized and priced appropriately.