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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by graycat on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:39PM (#40034281)
How long to transmit the 368 TB?

Each Ethernet port is at 200 Gb, that is, 200 billion bits per second or about 20 billion bytes per second or 20 BBs.

Two such ports are 40 BBps

The 368 TB is 368,000 GB

So, the transmit time is at least

368,000 / ( 40 * 3600 ) = 2.556 hours

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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by nyx on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:45PM (#40034319)
It's 200GbE. Assuming you could actually fully saturate both of those links, it would only take a couple of hours to copy off the entire capacity. I think you'd more likely be capped by the write speed of the destination storage?
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