Comments on: FedEx still faster than the internet

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:56:19 +0000

Does this take into account the amount of time required to transfer the data from the drive that was shipped onto the drive where it will be used? It seems to me it would take quite a while to move it from ‘external drive X:’ to your internal hard drive….

By: eirc

eirc — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:27:11 +0000

In reply to Kevin Cox. Still there's some overhead in detaching the disks from one infrastructure and attaching them to the other one. On this front AWS has their import/export Snowball service with an 80TB case which is very delivery and import/export export friendly.

By: Kevin Cox

Kevin Cox — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:27:11 +0000

In reply to Gareth. If you know you want to transfer the data the time to take a copy doesn't really apply because you can just write it to twice as many discs at the same time. Also with transferring it over the internet you have to write it down eventually anyways, so while you do lose some parallelism you are removing the massive internet bottleneck.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 02:24:43 +0000

The obvious question to me here is whether the time to create the copies of data is included here?

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:31:53 +0000

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”–Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981

By: ShieldsCW

ShieldsCW — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:04:00 +0000

I like how you use FedEx as your example, because we will never, ever, surpass UPS’s “bandwidth.”