Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon

Re:Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon by eck on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:14PM (#2744809)

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum

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Re:Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon by Tanner on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:44PM (#2744857)

I'm reading Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Tanenbaum right now. He's damned clever and turns what could easily be very dry material into something quite readable and occasionally very funny.

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Re:Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon by sjwright on Friday July 08, 2011 @10:39PM (#2744852)

Terrible ping times, though.

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Re:Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon by qq66 on Saturday July 09, 2011 @03:04AM (#2745214)

Well, a station wagon full of 32GB MicroSD cards would be even better :)

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Re:Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon by pbhjpbhj on Sunday July 10, 2011 @08:59AM (#2747689)

If you're going to say that then why not a juggernaut full of 32GB MicroSD cards.

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Re:Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon by billswift on Saturday July 09, 2011 @02:23AM (#2745159)

Or, today, an express mail envelope full of DVD-Rs.

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