Re: [Nolug] Cyberspace not always the fastest way to xfer data

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 21:28, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> "Petri Laihonen" <pietu@weblizards.net> writes:
> > ron.l.johnson@cox.net wrote:
> >> I reminds me of a quote I heard *many* moons ago: "never under-
> >> estimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes".
>
> "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with DVDs."

DVDs aren't very data-dense. Modern hard disks, though, are
amazingly dense (17GB/CuIn for the 400GB models. And the cross-
country travel time is only ~7 hours.

> > How much time did it take to load up all the flash cards?
> > How about downloading the data on the other end?
> > Was it included in the equation?
>
> It probably wasn't, but it would be negligible. Load up the flash
> card, attach to pigeon, release, repeat.

I think he was talking about having to manually insert each flash
card into a reader, mv the data, and then remove it.

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Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
Jefferson, LA USA
296,443 sq mi (767,787 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to
live at the same population density as Manhattan, New York.
That is ~ Arizona or Nevada.
Alternatively, that ~ double the size of Japan or Zimbabwe
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