Re:How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google ...
by dTal on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:55PM
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95 TB a day would cost Google roughly a million dollars a year. For a company that routinely makes tens of billions, it's not a gigantic amount, and I'm not so sure they wouldn't make it back in extra views - "nearly live" Street View would be an incredible tool. But they wouldn't even have to save all the data for that - just keep it flowing.
As to the logistics of data transfer - why not move the data physically? You're already carrying it around in all the mail trucks. Most of the logistics are already taken care of by the existing postal infrastructure. Just take the SD card out at the depo and put it on the next mail vehicle going towards Google.
Or, to paraphrase Andy Tanenbaum, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a postal truck with a shoebox of microSD cards hurtling down the highway".
*Fun fact - a shoebox full of 128 gigabyte microSDs has a capacity of nearly 9 petabytes!
As to the logistics of data transfer - why not move the data physically? You're already carrying it around in all the mail trucks. Most of the logistics are already taken care of by the existing postal infrastructure. Just take the SD card out at the depo and put it on the next mail vehicle going towards Google.
Or, to paraphrase Andy Tanenbaum, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a postal truck with a shoebox of microSD cards hurtling down the highway".
*Fun fact - a shoebox full of 128 gigabyte microSDs has a capacity of nearly 9 petabytes!