How to transfer large amounts of data via network

Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by jefurii on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:08PM (#9005178)

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

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Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by batbomb on Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:37PM (#9006299)

This only holds true so long as all data is on tape and you don't need a replica before sending it off, in case someone hits your petamobile.

That's because your bandwidth is limited by your tape library, the drives, the network to your tape library, the latency of retrieving/writing/copying to tape, and few other things.

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Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by wmf on Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:54PM (#9006404)

That's why the proverbial "tapes" should not be actual tapes but full Hadoop nodes. Just unrack them and go (or ship an entire rack). http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6457...

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Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by swatow on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:16AM (#9008022)

That was 13 years ago. Seems like the economics have changed in favor of the internet by now.

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Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by alexvoda on Thursday February 05, 2015 @05:34PM (#9006600)

Obligatory xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

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Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by z3t4 on Thursday February 05, 2015 @04:37PM (#9006301)

Thinking about that metaphor. I guess our current network is built for low latency, not high bandwidth!?

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Re:How to transfer large amounts of data via network by bwross on Thursday February 05, 2015 @06:55PM (#9007004)

Just don't try to do TCP over tapes on a station wagon.

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