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Have you ever thought that even today, if you had a very large "file", say 10 petabytes, that it would take 74 hours on a 300 Mb/s connection to transfer it anywhere in the world , therefore it would still be much faster to fly it physically anywhere, even with the ~5 hour time to transfer it to some sort of drive(s) at 5 gigabits a second.

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  • 5
    8y
    You would still need to transfer it on the device you want it to be, so redo your math.
  • 0
    8y
    I can't think of any single files being near 10 petabytes...!?

    Thats like 250,000 BluRay movies...!
  • 2
    8y
    In badly connected counties, this is actually a thing. Quicker to ship it with a device to another location than to transfer it over the internet.

    Especially if it means the company loses less money from reduced downtime.
  • 7
    8y
    In an article about the SETI project, I read a quote "never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck loaded with half inch tapes".
  • 1
    8y
    Isn't that the amazon snowball service thing?
  • 3
    8y
    Xkcd had a good one on this: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
  • 2
    8y
    I actually once saw a video of a company with two offices in a city with terrible internet.

    They actually trained pigeons to carry USBs.

    I can't tell if it was a joke or a real thing but I found it hilarious.
  • 1
    8y
    @ggromx you should check out RFC1149 - IPoAC : https://ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt/
  • 0
    8y
    @kyokid what do you mean?
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