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         For those times when downloading over the Internet is too slow
                                        
Andrew Tanenbaum [1] has been quoted as saying, “Never underestimate the
bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” And
yes, if you have a large amount of data to transfer, sometimes it is better
to physically move it than transfer it over the Intarwebs.

And if you have a metric buttload of data?

> AWS (Amazon Web Services) Snowmobile is an Exabyte- scale data transfer
> service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can
> transfer up to 100PB (Petabyte) per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized
> shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck. Snowmobile makes it
> easy to move massive volumes of data to the cloud, including video
> libraries, image repositories, or even a complete data center migration.
> Transferring data with Snowmobile is secure, fast and cost effective.
> 

Via Lobster s [2], “AWS Snowmobile – Massive Exabyte-Scale Data Transfer
Service [3]”

And for the record, a petabyte (PB) is 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes which I
think is the expected size of the next version of Windows.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
[2] https://lobste.rs/s/epgrmt/amazons_exabyte_scale_data_transfer
[3] https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

Email author at sean@conman.org