L4sBotSep 1, 2023

Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet

https://lemmy.world/post/4250367

Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet - Lemmy.world

Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

Show threadBobert
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway”
Sep 1, 2023 at 12:43pmWeb
Show threadMeanEYESep 1, 2023
Interestingly enough NASA still sends data this way. Huge HDD delivered by hand. Not all data, but I remember reading about some satellite images and similar data where latency doesn’t matter. Can’t beat good old box full of HDD.
Show threadglorious_albusSep 1, 2023
I wondered why NASA was using pigeons till I read the rest of your comment.
Show threadsmittySep 1, 2023
yep, radio telescopes send data this way, thats how SETI@home got the Arecibo data
Show threadBastingCheminaSep 2, 2023

It was 10 years ago so I don’t know what is the practice now but the “offsite backup” solution in my office was taking a hard drive to a safe at the local bank.

Every week someone would go to the bank to switch the drive that is stored there.

Show threadjscummySep 1, 2023
AWS offers a semi truck with a shipping container full of hard drives for large data transfers
Massive Data Transfer, Exabyte Data Storage - AWS Snowmobile - AWS

AWS Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS.

Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Show threadzipzoopaboopSep 1, 2023
Huh, I fully expected the link to be a hard drive article
Show threadleftzeroSep 1, 2023
youtu.be/a6y8cqayjQI
marvel agents of shield file sharing

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