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minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkEnglish26•3 days agoNever underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
minus-square@shalafilinkEnglish10•3 days agoAWS does exactly this. They will roll up with a semi and move your drives anywhere. EDIT: Crud. They ended Snowmobile this year. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/
minus-squaremoxlinkfedilinkEnglish4•3 days agohttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
AWS does exactly this. They will roll up with a semi and move your drives anywhere.
EDIT: Crud. They ended Snowmobile this year.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/
A hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
Not in a head on.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Get ready for a large file transfer…