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Reminds me of that AWS hard drive truck thing where your data is sent with quite the latency
by breppp 9mo ago
Reminds me of that AWS hard drive truck thing where your data is sent with quite the latency
- dredmorbius 9mo agoAlas, Snowmobile has been retired: <https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/amazon_snowmobile_delay/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/amazon_snowmobile_del...> (2024).
- esafak 9mo agoEchoing Andrew Tanenbaum's famous quip, Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- Sharlin 9mo agoIt’s a great way to demonstrate the difference between bandwidth and latency.
- EvanAnderson 9mo agoBack in the late 90s I delivered a couple of LTO drives and a bunch of tapes to a Customer in my car (not a station wagon, sadly). As I drove I thought "drive faster to decrease the latency!" (The car was a Geo Metro and my co-workers described it as not much bigger than one of the backup tapes-- one of them likening it to some kind of interchangeable backup module itself.)
- ale42 9mo agoSee also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet