never underestimate
the bandwidth capacity of a lorry full of backup tapes
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Fri 18 Jul 2008, 1:30,
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I reckon a truck full of DAT tapes could hold about 156 petabytes.
Hella bad latency though. I guess the actual bandwidth depends on how many trucks can arrive per second.
If they arrive at the rate of one per hour, the bandwidth of a big truck is 347 Terabits per second, or 347,000,000 Mbit/s.
Downloading all the data in the world this way (or at least all the data in the world in 2006, according to the New York Times) would take a month and a half.
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Fri 18 Jul 2008, 1:44,
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If they arrive at the rate of one per hour, the bandwidth of a big truck is 347 Terabits per second, or 347,000,000 Mbit/s.
Downloading all the data in the world this way (or at least all the data in the world in 2006, according to the New York Times) would take a month and a half.