I have a 32GB USB stick somewhere, that's an 8-fold throughput increase. I'm guessing my 500GB portable hard drive would be a bit too heavy for a pigeon . . . I

I have a 32GB USB stick somewhere, that's an 8-fold throughput increase. I'm guessing my 500GB portable hard drive would be a bit too heavy for a pigeon . . . I suppose you could do packet bursting by strapping the hard drive to several pigeons.