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27 DVDs = not a lot of data. What were they doing, transcoding through paper tape?
by kabdib 13y ago
27 DVDs = not a lot of data. What were they doing, transcoding through paper tape?
- nly 13y ago> The data set was so large it took up 27 DVDs and took a couple of weeks to upload. 27 * 8 GiB (DVD-9) / 2 weeks = ~1.5 Mbps. Yep, that's British broadband bought from the lowest bidder.
- srj 13y agoI think it's tough to say. There's considerable overhead to packeted traffic. Also it sounds like they had a simple setup so there would be a delay in exchanging the DVDs after each one finishes. Uploads probably finished over the weekend with nobody there to start the next one too.
- OscarCunningham 13y agoSneakernet would have been faster...
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoThey're probably not allowed to take the data out of the building for security purposes ...
- mathnode 13y agoThat's nearly 4.5TB if it was gzipped plain-text.
- Crito 13y agoSooo... not a lot of data. That's kabdib's point. This isn't the 90s or something, a couple of terabytes is no longer "big data".