Never Underestimate the Bandwidth of a Suburban Filled With MicroSD Cards 208
toygeek writes "If you've been in IT long enough, you're bound to have heard the phrase 'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes.' These days moving data has become so much easier; We've surpassed baud rates and are into Gbps fiber on the backbones, and even in some homes. So, what's the modern equivalent to this, and what does it take to make the OC fiber connections cringe? Follow along as we theoretically stuff MicroSD cards into a Chevy Suburban and see what happens, and take sneakernet to a whole new level."
The bandwidth of a human. (Score:5, Funny)
Swallowing capsules containing a terabyte (about 12mm in diameter, and 15mm long of microSDs) is quite plausible.
You can easily swallow a hundred of these, and it'll come out over the next 2 days.
100TB/2 days = 600 megabytes a second.
Re:The bandwidth of a human. (Score:4, Funny)
Something something memory dump.
Re:Bandwidth (Score:3, Funny)
"That's more porn than the whole Slashdot can consume."
Challenge: ACCEPTED!
Re: The bandwidth of a human. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Common sense almost prevails (Score:5, Funny)
They got confused by microSD cards not being one millionth the size of an SD card. Damned misleading names.
A 2014 suburban filled with SD cards (Score:5, Funny)
Assuming 2500kg for the car, 0.0005kg per cards, $50000 for the car and $50 per card:
Not only a bandwidth of 68Tbps, but a mass of 12 metric tons (4.8 empty cars).
Also a market value of $0.96B, or the equivalent of 19,141 new cars, plus one car with a broken suspension.
Re:This is pointless (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, but it's competing with high-speed networks that are crippled by the ISPs at both ends using a single fibre to feed an entire neighborhood, and intentionally slowing the speed at the customer's site to a crawl unless you pay an exorbitant rate for a higher speed (which is then unused 99% of the time, and doesn't deliver if 2 or 3 others in your neighborhood are using high speed at the same time).
Last I checked an OC-768, as referenced in the article, isn't going to be crippled by the ISP.
Maybe it's time for you to realize that your uber-ultimate-epic-extreme bandwidth package from your ISP isn't really that fast compared to say what's in the article...
Re:Semi Truck Full of HDDs (Score:4, Funny)
Stupid fiddly little things (Score:4, Funny)
However many cubic inches it is, it's the fundamental problem with this method. The one with the really crucial data on it is bound to find its way under a seat, into an ashtray etc.