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[CW Dead Bird]] Birds aren't real (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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[โ€“] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 9 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

What is the bandwidth of a cargo plane? You fill the hold with data storage disks, fly them to the destination and then read them in.

[โ€“] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 20 hours ago

That's kinda how aws got companies into cloud storage.
A truck that would duplicate a companies disks, then drive to a data center and make the data available on s3 or whatever.
Retired now, tho.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/

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