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Re:Amazon Glacier by cstuder on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @05:42AM (#4411959)
If you don't mind the additional cost, you can physically send Amazon a harddrive: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
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Re:Amazon Glacier by alttab on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:25AM (#4412349)
nothing says "cloud" like sending a physical hard drive through the mail.
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Re:Amazon Glacier by jerf on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @09:08AM (#4412500)
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
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