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Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video] by dr_orpheus on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:25PM (#37311842)
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." –Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
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Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video] by MichaelZuo on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:31PM (#37311928)
Nowadays you can buy 30TB 2.5 inch SSDs which includes a durable metal housing. So a station wagon could feasibly transport close to 300 petabytes. Though that would be close to a quarter billion dollars worth of SSDs.
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Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video] by aziaziazi on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:42PM (#37312056)
Are ssd the best alternatives regarding price/bite and volume/bite ? It seems and SDUC card will largely beat on the volume comparison.
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Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video] by MichaelZuo on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:26PM (#37312630)
Not if you expect to actually get data out of them after hurtling down the road. Even for top end enterprise grade SSDs made at the highest standard, I would only assign a <99.9% chance of doing so. So that's 10 bad SSDs per trip at least.
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Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video] by biomcgary on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @03:54PM (#37313016)
Erasure codes are your friend, if you have the compute.
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Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video] by Beached on Friday September 01, 2023 @02:25AM (#37347493)
it's not commercially available yet, but I imagine 5d storage would be best data density.
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