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

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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 threadidunnololz

I’m not the original author:

Trebuchets are the most technologically advanced siege engines of all time, and are capable of hurling a 90kg stone over 300m using a counterweight.

With this in mind, we can perform the following calculations:

A 22TB WD Red Pro drive weighs 670g, with a maximum hurl weight of 90kg, trebuchet can hurl 134 drives at once, totalling 2,948 TB of data.

The average speed of a trebuchet projectile is 54m/s and the average size of an American ‘block’ is 100m. Lets presume 3 blocks to get our full trebuchets use (fuck you catapults).

It’ll take 5.5 seconds for the projectile to go from launch to dramatic landing, meaning a throughput of 536TB a second.

Therefore, trebuchets are the best transfer method.

Sep 1, 2023 at 6:30pmWeb
Show threadstarmanSep 1, 2023
Poor HDDs
Show threadwahmingSep 1, 2023
If you use Western Digital, the HDDs won’t notice the extreme transfer method. They’ll be unreadable either way
Show threadAnd009Sep 2, 2023
Only download, no upload… Dammit leechers
Show threadJigglySacklesSep 2, 2023
All of these methods have extreme bandwidth but terrible latency and packet loss.
Show threadidunnololzSep 2, 2023
Just use half the bandwidth for redundancy.
Show threadThetimefarmSep 2, 2023
You’ve heard of RAID but have you ever tried SEIGE?
Show threadx4740NSep 2, 2023
In a real world scenario this would need to account for protection to the storage devices to prevent damage and potential loss of data from damage
Show threadChadus_MaximusSep 2, 2023
At this point why not get a 30 ton truck to carry all those WD Red Pros? Sure you can only go 5.4 m/s but the carrying capacity is much greater!
Show threadpineapplepizzaSep 3, 2023

techcrunch.com/…/amazon-will-truck-your-massive-p…

100 petabytes in a truck from 2016

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