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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by Animats on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:19PM (#40034104)
AWS has a whole line of these, their "Snow" product line.[1]

There's the "Snowcone", the "Snowball", and, for those really big transfers, the "Snowmobile".[2]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/snow/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vQmTZTq7nw&t=109s

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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by synack on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:29PM (#40034186)
Rumors that they're discontinuing the snowmobile service: https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00/status/1776999225550938124
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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by crote on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:50PM (#40034360)
I'm not too surprised. There aren't that many parties with 100PB of data looking to switch from on-prem to the cloud. If you haven't migrated in the last 8 years already, you're probably never going to.

Keeping that truck around isn't exactly cheap either. I reckon it reached its technical or economic lifespan and simply isn't worth replacing.

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