Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video]
by fdwlbs on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:45PM
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I suppose it mostly depends on how much the saved time is worth and how that compares to the cost of transport. I suppose there are some cases where shipping a box of drives makes sense.
I think a much more common case is having a critical machine crash and needing a backup sent to you. Depending on the bandwidth you actually have, restore by mail can be faster. And that's why companies like backblaze offer it.
Restoring 8TB, which is not an unreasonable amount of data in 2023, at 40Mb/s, which is not that uncommon in much of America, still takes more than 2 days when everything goes perfectly.
FedEx'ing a 8TB drive should be able to beat that in many cases.
I think a much more common case is having a critical machine crash and needing a backup sent to you. Depending on the bandwidth you actually have, restore by mail can be faster. And that's why companies like backblaze offer it.
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/features/restore
Restoring 8TB, which is not an unreasonable amount of data in 2023, at 40Mb/s, which is not that uncommon in much of America, still takes more than 2 days when everything goes perfectly.
FedEx'ing a 8TB drive should be able to beat that in many cases.