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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by remram on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:33PM (#40034229)
This is still a common thing. Amazon has AWS Snowball [1] (up to 210 TB), Backblaze has Fireball [2] (96 TB), GCP has Transfer Appliance [3] (300 TB) and I'm sure there are others.

They ship it to you, you fill it up (over S3 API for example) and send it back.

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

[2]: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/features/fireball-da...

[3]: https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/docs/4.0/overvie...

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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by Gud on Sunday April 14, 2024 @05:34PM (#40034690)
I wonder if it's possible to start a moving company doing this? Buy a VW transporter and fill it up with SSDs...
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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by remram on Sunday April 14, 2024 @06:46PM (#40035179)
My gut reaction is that either people are moving data to another of their locations, in which case they have disks they can ship with regular transporters, or they are moving to the cloud, and they can use the cloud's transportation service. I might be wrong though!
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