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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•1 month agoThe entire point of it to show anything could be… You could say back in the day when you had to drive to a store to pick up a NES cartridge means your mom’s minivan can carry Internet traffic. It was just a way to move a physical item containing data.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-LemmygodlinkfedilinkEnglish26•1 month agoNever underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 month 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoA hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
minus-squaremoxlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 month 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)
The entire point of it to show anything could be…
You could say back in the day when you had to drive to a store to pick up a NES cartridge means your mom’s minivan can carry Internet traffic.
It was just a way to move a physical item containing data.
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…