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The original was posted on /r/nostalgia by /u/singleguy79 on 2024-05-03 04:24:44.
The community college near me had zip drives on the library computers. I bought one primarily so I could download Netscape there and bring it home because doing it that way was faster than using our dialup connection.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
That’s more or less how certain public clouds manage migrations in some cases.
I’ve watched a company load up 2PB of data into a tape library, have them stack it full of bubblewrap, then roll it onto the back of a truck with the tires deflated for a softer ride, then driven across town to a new datacentre at 3am on a Sunday.
Effective data rate: 1PB per hour.
The bandwidth’s okay, but the latency sucks.