How to transfer large amounts of data via network

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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